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  Conclave 2024

  Watched 25 Feb 2025

  I’m declining to star-rate this because I can’t be objective about the film.

  I think I liked “Conclave” better back when I had only read the book and had tumblr gifsets of the film to go off of. It was a very good movie, don’t get me wrong. But as usual, I just preferred the source material. I think it deserves more of the love the movie is getting, especially with people referring to the screenwriter as “the writer of…

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  Hundreds of Beavers 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Nov 2024

  So funny and inventive that it was legitimately exhausting by the end.

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  Macbeth 1948

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Nov 2022

  Once I got over the fact that I couldn’t understand half of what everyone was saying with their awful Scottish accents (and that’s on TOP of the standard adjustment period that comes with getting one’s brain in understanding-Shakespearean-language mode), I absolutely adored this version of the Scottish Play. 

  Despite being a lover of Shakespeare’s tragedies, Mac is the biggest one I’ve never gotten into. I’ve seen several versions but none have ever made me care about the Macs or have…

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  Heat 1995

  ★★★ Watched 13 Dec 2020

  I really, really wanted to like this. It’s considered a masterpiece and Michael Mann is a director I love. But I found it to be just... there. I wasn’t bored out of my mind, but I wasn’t invested either. It was very drab, very bland, with only a handful of Mann-isms. 

  I think can pretty much just count off the things I liked about it:

  1.) the scenes where people are talking in their houses with the ocean in the…

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