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  Barbarian 2022

  ★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Poor Georgina Campbell.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  This is one of those movies with so much obvious care and craftsmanship on display, with every actor very obviously having a great time, you just know it’s Good™️ st a bare minimum. I think it has so many ideas and details packed into runtime though, I would need another viewing to really have a take of my own. I’m gonna wait for that chance and also caution anyone reading this from buying too into any overly-assertive take about the…

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  Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion 1997

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 12 Aug 2024

  There's almost certainly nothing I could say about EoE that hasn't been already. It's been years since I've seen it and the show itself, but I really felt I was bringing fresh eyes to it all.

  I love watching an artist working through their shit in the art itself and Anno might truly be the apex of it. His ability to render the raw neurosis of a character--the racing of their mind, thoughts, feelings, perceptions, lies, and truths all clashing…

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  Nope 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Jul 2022

  A movie about what thrills and terrifies us in equal, inseparable measure. We feel danger right on the other side of the glass, but we just can’t look away. Even after the blood splatters, that very close shave is weighed against the catharsis of knowing and we judge it a fair trade. We do this in real life in all kinds of ways, but the gift of (particularly well-made) cinema is the ability to do so in our own comfort and safety without sacrificing someone else’s.

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