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  A Real Pain 2024

  ★★★★ Rewatched 12 Mar 2025

  I'm really glad I got to see this a second time. I think knowing what is really going on with David and Benji enriches the experience. There are some flaws here. Eisenberge sometimes overly uses these characters for his sounding board to deliver his ideas about pain vs privilege in a way that feels a little forced. Also could do with 10% less of the piano music that plays throughout the movie. These are minor quibbles however. This a deeply…

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  Affliction 1997

  ★★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Impressively bleak stuff. Nick Nolte has never been better. Neither has James Colburn. The acting here is as raw as it gets. If there is a flaw in it I think it's that this story has no real flow to it. It's just one bad outcome after another rather than a story that really builds up to something. This makes it hard to be as emotionally invested as we should be because neither us or the characters are allowed the…

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Acting is good. Movie looks good. But sigh... I just never really cared where this story was headed. The satire is less bitting and more like preaching to the choir. Not a bad movie but not a truly inspired effort like so many of this guys work.

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  Waking Ned Devine 1998

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 22 Jan 2025

  An absolute classic. Probably responsible for 90% of the likely stereotyping people do in regards to Ireland. But you know what it doesn't matter. Not when you have such a fine ensemble led by Ian Brennan and Michael Kelly. At its heart this movie is about how a community of friends and neighbors are kind to one another. The story is utter fantasy. Certainly a movie like The Banshees of Inersharin would raise an eyebrow or two. But in times…

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