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  Better Man 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Feb 2025

  The monkey makes sense by the end, I promise. But even if it didn't, this is a gorgeously, creatively shot movie. I'm glad I watched this after A Complete Unknown, because it let me appreciate the balance the movie struck between a tribute to the songs and an actual story about the artist behind them much better. The musical sequences don't just stop the plot, they perfectly represent Williams' life with beautiful editing, visual effects, and choreography. The film's depiction…

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  Cult of Chucky 2017

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Feb 2025

  This movie really highlights how Don Mancini properly grew into the head of the franchise. The most stylish entry in the series, Cult of Chucky is filled with blinding setpieces, creative editing tricks, and a general sense of unease that slowly builds until all hell breaks loose. This movie understands more than any since the first two that Chucky's greatest skill is his ability to turn people against anyone who knows or suspects his presence, sometimes to the point of…

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★ Watched 28 Jan 2025

  A movie so enraptured with the music of Dylan that it forgets to actually be about anything else, resulting in a movie with few characters and themes other than "Bob Dylan sure was a cool dude!" and "The 60's were crazy am I right?" Events just sort of blow by without much dramatic weight, and it feels like the only reason the movie gives you to care about anything going on is simply the fact that it's happening to Dylan.…

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  Stranger Than Fiction 2006

  ★★★★½ Watched 21 Jan 2025

  A gorgeously-shot, perfectly acted cut of modern fantasy about fate, finding purpose, the way stories affect us and the world, and the way all lives are their own stories, constantly crossing and affecting each other's. Will Ferrell and Emma Thompson carry the movie with yin-yang performances that reflect the different ways one can be lost in life; one in the mundanity of a successful yet empty life and the other in vices and pressure to create. Every supporting character has…

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