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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 09 Feb 2025

  The fetishized fetishize.

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  Moonstruck 1987

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Feb 2025

  While the first dinner table scene made me think of the Klumps, I bet (despite remembering little about the Klumps' interactions) that it was done better here.

  And Cher in Moonstruck is the most beautiful woman there ever was. It's not even close.

Popular reviews

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  First Reformed 2017

  ★★★★½ Added

  "You think God wants to destroy his creation?"

  I love when a movie builds connections I couldn't see without it. When it uses the most common symbols and their associations - alcohol and its destructiveness; the earth and its purity; the crown of thorns and its sacrificial sadism - and reinvents them in combination with each other. It becomes more than individuals living out their tragedies, as they're all caught in the whirlwind of symbols by which they (and we)…

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  Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985

  ★★★★½ Added 2

  I cannot remember another movie that so effectively hits the 'all the world's a stage' theme without spening an inordinate amount of time talking about the 'thee-ah-ter' (prounounced as Addison DeWitt would). Through the interweaving of three separate narratives, the other-worldyness of some incredible set pieces and the on-point quotes of the titular character, one sees a man's life transformed into a thing to be seen. By this, the film accomplishes Mishima's ultimate goal (at least as Schrader makes it…

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