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Recent reviews

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  The Imitation Game 2014

  ★★★ Watched 13 Jan 2025

  apparently Alan Turing was a pretty regular/likable guy with lots of friends and not an asshole/stuttering social moron lol 

  Idk it was fine. Interesting story that they needlessly tried to jazz up but still didn't manage to rly elevate it beyond a ~3-star film.

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  Porco Rosso 1992

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Jan 2025

  an anti-fascist pig man doing 1930s dogfights is the coolest guy I've heard of since Michael Clayton

Popular reviews

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  Badlands 1973

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Mar 2021 2

  As someone who grew up in the city, I’ve always found small towns in the middle of nowhere to be much more unsettling than virtually any place in any city I’ve ever been to. There‘a a certain type of small town, especially over in the plains region of the USA—Wyoming, the Dakotas, Kansas—that sends a chill down my spine even just stopping for gas. You can feel the bad vibes seeping from every pore of every person you encounter. These…

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  A Serious Man 2009

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 08 Feb 2021

  My neighbor loaned this to me the summer before I went off to college and I thought it was decent but I think I was too stupid to fully appreciate it when I was 18. Watching it as a 30 year old it's grown to be one of my favorites by the Coens—but I'm a sucker for movies with existential themes and about the abject failure of the concept of "The American Dream."

  It makes me feel like this scene in The Sopranos:

  Chris: You ever feel like nothing good was ever gonna happen to you?

  Pauli: Yeah, and nothing did! So what?

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