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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  The problem I have with these music biopics is that they work on me so well. Same thing with sports movies. Anything which has scenes that would be entertaining to watch without being dramatized.  It leaves me feeling used, and wondering if I would have liked it without them.

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  Flow 2024

  ★★½ Watched 29 Jan 2025 1

  Charming but very much not for me. Might have gotten +2 stars if I wasn't so tired when I saw it.

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  The Apprentice 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 31 Oct 2024 6

  I went into this movie with very high hopes and in much, it did deliver. The aspect ratio. The grainy visuals. Jeremy Strong absolutely killing it (pun intended). 
  However I can't help feeling as if the movie missed an opportunity. Whenever it focuses on young Donald Trump and his relationships (especially with Roy) it's amazing. Too often though it slides into what feels like cameos on a TV show of personalities which are interesting to the viewer only because of…

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Oct 2024 4

  I kept thinking about the picture of dorian gray, but like if he had body image issues. And lived in the insta era. And wasn't a guy. Really they didn't have that much in common.

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