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  It Ends with Us 2024

  ★★½ Watched 26 Dec 2024

  Not bad, not good either. Just kind of mid.

  Points for casting yourself as a bad person, demerits for maybe actually being a bad person IRL?

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  Walk the Line 2005

  ★★★ Watched 24 Dec 2024

  I really shouldn't have watched Walk Hard (itself not a good movie) before watching this

Popular reviews

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  Civil War 2024

  ★★ Watched 19 Apr 2024

  Civil War? More like Drivel Galore. The tl;dr of it is that the problem with Civil War is that it thinks it just fell out of a coconut tree, when in fact it exists in the context of all in which it lives and what came before it.

  Folks, it's about journalism. Specifically, about war photographers and correspondents. That needs to be understood before you go into it. Forget all of the advertising leading up to the movie. Forget the…

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  The Passenger 1975

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Jun 2024 1

  More than I like to admit, I find myself wanting to throw my life away and go on the run with a French baddie under an assumed name. But then I think of the parable of the blind man who gains the gift of sight and goes mad with despair from the fear he feels in his new world. Phew.

  This is the first film we are watching in a film club that a friend of mine recently put together.…

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