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Recent reviews

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  The Forgotten Battle 2020

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Feb 2025

  Stripped down yet stylized. No heroic speeches, just shocked eyes.

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  The Gorge 2025

  ½ Watched 13 Feb 2025

  Groot: An Origin Story

Popular reviews

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  Just. One. Mile. 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 31 Aug 2023

  A loosely-veiled ad for the US Navy Seals hosted by the love child of David Goggins and Duck Dynasty.

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Feb 2025

  Spotlighting the outsiders, Baker has a way of keeping us on the edge of society with them, so close to familiarity (Disney World in Florida Project, Houston in Red Rocket, Manhattan in Anora) yet left with a sobering tease. Once he gratifies the long-awaited desire by plunging us into Vegas, we are shown the chaotic, perhaps incompatible nature of his characters, the audience, and the society that engulfs the two.

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