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  A Real Pain 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  Can’t unsee Roman Roy, or imagine Kieran in a non tomfoolery role. Impressive directing, pulling off steady comic relief alongside heavy symbolic undertones

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  Talk about ironic timing for this to be released while Francis looks like he is nearing his end. You have to wonder the parallels with real life conclaves and cardinals schemin around voting

Popular reviews

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  Dead Poets Society 1989

  ★★★★½ Watched 08 Nov 2024

  clone mr keating to be all of our children’s educators and america may make a comeback…

  oh, and mandatory daily bagpipe sessions by the lake.

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  Nickel Boys 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Feb 2025

  I’m still downloading a month after watching this. I have two primary take aways.

  I don’t remember ever grappling with a first-person point of view for as long as we do, impatiently wanting to see Elwood. As the film went on, I settled in to a new way of relating to a foreign experience. Props to RaMell Ross for paving his own path through a humanizing cinematic lens in first feature film. 

  Secondly, the flashes to synchronous events during Jim…

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