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  Black Mirror: Fifteen Million Merits 2011

  ★½ Added 2

  Alright, here's my pitch for a really disturbing Black Mirror plot: Imagine there's this TV show with precisely one fucking idea, an idea that was already looking pretty tired and simplistic when the show first came out almost 15 years ago, and not only does this show keep getting made, they recycle that idea over and over and over again, banging you over the head with it, demanding you recognize how insightful and deep and prescient and *important* it is.…

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  A Real Pain 2024

  ★½ Added

  To paraphrase Ray Smuckles: Beats me, man. Beats me why most movies suck. Sure as hell ain't my scene.

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  Napoleon 2002

  ★★★½ Added

  Features a scene in which Napoleon, having been told by a terrified bureaucrat that his marriage isn't actually official, replies: "Fix it, you fool - tonight I have a woman to love, and tomorrow I must take Italy back from Austria."
  So... yeah. Better than Ridley Scott.

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  The Adventures of the American Rabbit 1986

  ½ Added

  What one imagines the inside of Ronald Reagan's brain was like.

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