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  • Hiroshima Mon Amour
  • An Elephant Sitting Still
  • Inside Llewyn Davis
  • Hot Fuzz

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  • Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story

    ★★★★

  • The Bad and the Beautiful

    ★★★★

  • Escape from New York

    ★★★

  • Blue Ruin

    ★★★½

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  • Locke

    Locke

    ★★★★

    Did I just watch a 90 minute BMW ad? Yes. Did I enjoy it? Also yes. Will I watch anything with Tom Hardy's pretty face and weird sexy accents? Probably...

  • The Turin Horse

    The Turin Horse

    ★★★★★

    Eat,
    sleep,
    ponder existence,
    repeat.

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  • Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story

    Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story

    ★★★★

    Molly with the balls!! 🥹

    Simple doc. Adorable otter. Gorgeous scenery. Melts away all worries and anxieties. What more could you want?

  • The Bad and the Beautiful

    The Bad and the Beautiful

    ★★★★

    Kirk Douglas is a force of nature. Shields is despicable and narcissistic and an asshole, yet Douglas brings a nuisance to the character such that you can't help but be sympathetic to him. As great as Kirk's performance is, I can't help but wrinkle my nose at a Hollywood film about Hollywood.

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  • Still Walking

    Still Walking

    ★★★★½

    I love Kore-eda when the Ozu influence is unmistakable. Immediately after films like these, the world seems so quiet and zen. My thoughts are so clear. I love the fact that cinema can have such a beautiful effect on my psyche.

    Criterion Challenge 2024 #49: 2000s

  • Long Day's Journey into Night

    Long Day's Journey into Night

    ★★★★★

    Thinking about Bi Gan's next project today, but was disappointed to find out that it still has no release date. Settled on rewatching this elusive mosaic of dreams and memories instead.

    Unlike my first watch, instead of attempting the futile task of untangling all the narrative threads of this neo-noir, I let myself sink into its sense of the familiar that's just out of reach. The green dress, the red hair, the old photograph, wild pomelos, all these reoccurring motifs…