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  Omaha 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Jan 2025

  Writer Robert Machoian tests the limits of Show Me Don’t Tell Me, fashioning the typically perfunctory reveal of details about the lead character’s situation as if the film is a mystery. 

  John Magaro’s interiority is time bomb. He’s a revelation and yet you could make an argument he’s the third best performance. 

  The kids are worth the price of admission. Molly Belle Wright will be an Oscar winning movie star if she wants to be, and Wyatt Solis has insane charisma for an actor his age.

  AFTERSUN comps aside, solid film—worth seeing. 

  #Sundance #Sundance2025

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  2000 Meters to Andriivka 2025

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Jan 2025

  The rare automatic five star film I’ll never see again. The story within the larger story of the Ukraine war that Mstyslav Chernov chooses to tell is an inspired one—if Ukrainian forces can advance 2000 meters through a narrow landstrip of a forest—they can cut off a key supply chain road for Russian forces. 

  So you’re engaged with that very specific mission. Along the way, you learn more about war than you’re prepared for, and that’s the point. Nothing can…

Popular reviews

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  Boogie Nights 2022

  Watched 25 Oct 2022

  lol why would they call this boogie nights, i’m dying

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  East of Wall 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Jan 2025

  Within the first seconds of EAST OF WALL, you relax—because it’s clear you’re in good hands.  In her stunning first feature—Kate Beecroft manages to juxtapose a modern story with many of the flourishes of a classic western. 

  Tik Tok videos of street actors as preternatural equestrians flying across a landscape shot that would make John Ford nod in approval. White hat protagonists & black hat antagonists—but set to hip hop. ‘Might have to sell the ranch to the rich guy’ trope—but…

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