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  Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust 2000

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Sep 2024

  Gothic Millennium futurist western vampire anime notable for an unusual wide release in American theaters. The movie contains a scene of a Victorian gothic cathedral spaceship traveling to an interstellar city of vampires.

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  The Matrix 1999

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Jun 2019

  Will continue to feel prescient until we are all cocooned in pods to power the lights for our robot overlords.

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  Burning 2018

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 19 Jun 2019

  A sense of dread, mystery, and perplexing social interactions worthy of David Lynch.

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  Vox Lux 2018

  ★ Watched 19 Jun 2019

  A film with promising ideas squanders it all by fundamentally misunderstanding and barely concealing its contempt for pop music. Add in a scenery-chewing performance by Natalie Portman (isolated to the movie's second half and featuring a distracting Staten Island accent), and pop music by Sia at her most cynical and derivative, and you have a movie that is considerably worse than it should have been.

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