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  Alexander Nevsky 1938

  ★★★½ Watched 29 May 2024

  A not-very-subtle allegory regarding the war that, by 1938, was quite obviously coming at the Soviets.

  I think it's a credit to Eisenstein and Prokofiev that I've rated it as well as I have. As I said, the film itself is not at all subtle, and there are no subplots with any substance. It's very much "Germans are coming! *battle* We beat the Germans!"

  The one subplot of note, about marriages, is weird and disjointed, particularly given the Soviet Union's…

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  Atlas 2024

  ★★ Watched 26 May 2024

  As movies go, this was certainly one of them.

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  Root Cause 2019

  ½ Added

  If I understand this film correctly, root canals cause cancer, heart attacks, Imagine Dragons albums, Ted Cruz's beard, dementia, getting punched in the balls, strokes, aneurysms, and Scrappy Doo.

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  Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County 2010

  ★★½ Watched 15 Dec 2020

  ...in which the daughter of a real estate mogul/venture capitalist and the Speaker of the House explores income inequality and the working poor.

  The kids were amazing and I hope they're doing as well as possible. I don't have any doubt the director meant well, but it's a tough pill to swallow coming from someone whose mother could have made substantive changes for these people's lives* and didn't.

  * - they had the presidency, House, and Senate at the time.

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