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  American Beauty 1999

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  I just be watching movies List #1

  
  Written by: Alan Ball
  Directed by: Sam Mendes
  Score: 80%

  Against the backdrop of the typical American suburbia, American Beauty unravels a man's midlife crisis, and its characters' struggle with the idea of contentment and identity. It also explores the similarities in characters from different generations, and the sense of belonging that ultimately everyone is searching for, or for some, rather rejecting.

  The ambition American Beauty has put onto itself to be so…

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  John Wick: Chapter 4 2023

  ★★★ Watched 10 Sep 2023 1

  2023 Film Season. Review #8.
  
  John Wick: Chapter 4 is as the title implies, the fourth film of the murderous John Wick saga that started back in 2014. Every iteration including this one has been directed by Chad Stahelski, and at this point the director's name is not the only thing that stayed very much the same.

  I am not going to tiptoe around it: I ain't crazy about John Wick: Chapter 4. At all. It's a film I respect—that's…

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  Elvis 2022

  ★½ Watched 30 Jun 2022 7

  2022 Film Season. Film #4.

  In Elvis, Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrman aims at translating EP’s entire life and career into a two hours and forty minutes dazzling, stylish and colorful film. To that end, Luhrman decides to literally flash through time nodding that Presley did this and that and the papers said this and that about it, aided by the most extravagant and goofy editing I have seen in my life, and by the same the occasion, probably giving audiences…

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  Triangle of Sadness 2022

  ★★★ Watched 27 Dec 2022 2

  2022 Film Season. Film #13.

  Triangle Of Sadness is a film written and directed by Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund. Coincidentally it is the second Palme d'Or victor in a row, I find, for all its intriguing endeavor, not victorious in the end.

  The great things about Triangle Of Sadness are the tonal consistency, the performances, and its inescapable entertainment value. At his strongest on the directorial wheel, Östlund crafts a story that thrives on spontaneity, and interactions between characters that…

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