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  • I'm Still Here

    ★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★½

  • Le Samouraï

    ★★★

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    Spoilers below
    Mark Ruffalo is great playing a Trump like politician migrating away from Earth to create its own colony. Good job by Pattinson.
    There are some details that are maybe unnecessary, for instance the emphasis on the sauces meant to show the divide between what the space ship crew eats everyday, some recycled crap, versus what the leaders have access to. It gets annoying.
    A recurrent question throughout the movie is "what does it feel like to die?" and…

  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★★½

    Kind of a linguistic challenge, it takes time to (barely) adjust to Dylan's accent. Appropriate balance between of singing and non singing scenes. Except his first love and his childhood idol, all his relationships are based on music. As he develops and steps away from his original genre of folk music (eluded to in car scene with Pete at the start), his first set of relationships slowly breaks down, replaced by youngsters that workship him. It's not easy to navigate people's expectations and find your voice

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  • Perfect Days

    Perfect Days

    ★★★½

    Does he understand the cassette songs, especially the last one? He may come from an educated background, it's not unrealistic. Sharp contrast between when he is working and when he is not. His blue uniform dehumanizes him and only other outcasts/marginalized acknowledge his presence. Tokyo from his tiny blue car seems alienating. The mother cleans the hands of her child immediately and does not thank him. When he is off duty, his habits build a neighborhood feel of Tokyo: you…

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