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  Anora 2024

  ★★½ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  If Boston Dynamics invented an automaton with the Godfather's repertoire programmed in. You can pick up the tics of '70s downbeat classics, but it don't mean you got soul.

  Another in a long, shabby line of post-2000 best pic winners where the case is overstated but the evidence is underwhelming. It's credibly ... fine.

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Feb 2025

  It's pretty cool they're nominating B-movies for the Oscars these days. If you transferred this movie to VHS it'd make an excellent Joe Bob episode.

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  Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 2023

  ★★ Watched 03 Jul 2023

  I think we can all agree when we watched the relentlessly kinetic, bursting-with-life Raiders of the Lost Ark our first thought was "Not bad. But what I really want to see is Indy as a beaten-down old man wearing sweatpants."

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  Rolling Thunder 1977

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Apr 2023

  I got one rule in life: When a movie gives you a guy hooking another dude in the nuts, you gotta respect that movie.

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