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  Calamity Jane 1953

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Feb 2025

  Remake this as a straightforward butchfemme lesbian romance immediately

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  Gattaca 1997

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Feb 2025

  A movie about how even a Nazi world that doesn't call itself that would still be devoid of passion, socially stratified, culturally stagnant and suspicious should be treated as more relevant today than it is.

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  Home Alone 1990

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 25 Dec 2024

  Home Alone is /the/ Christmas movie in Poland, which means this is a movie I've grown up with and that has grown up with me. One thing I appreciate more and more with each rewatch is how, despite its obviously silly premise, the movie has a rigorous internal logic justifying every step. Even though (or maybe because) we live in the age of wikis and pedantic YouTubers, it's hard to imagine any movie pulling this off today.

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★ Watched 09 Nov 2024

  The internet tells me Anora is a 'romantic comedy-drama'. As far as I can tell, 'comedy-drama' is technically correct, but there's something oddly literal about that tag. The first third of the movie seems to be setting up a straight drama, the middle almost devolves into slapstick, and the final third swings back a bit, but not all the way to drama. The resulting tone is strange - even when I thought the movie was funny I could never be…

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