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  Gone Girl 2014

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 30 Aug 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Safe 1995

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Aug 2023

  If Safe was more formally and narratively conventional, its ideas would run the risk of feeling just as shallow as the superficiality it seeks to critique. The detail of Carol’s struggle to get the right couch for her living room, for instance, could easily come off as a trite cynicism about consumerist culture. But Safe doesn’t make that kind of easy criticism, opting instead to use its strange sensations and rhythms—a sparse narrative with very few recognizable dramatic beats, glacially…

Popular reviews

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  Blue Jasmine 2013

  ★★★½ Added

  Somewhat awkwardly structured at points, and sometimes not quite hitting the marks I wished it would. It's still very entertaining and moving, mostly because of Cate Blanchett's remarkable performance.

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  Whiplash 2014

  ★★★★★ Added

  Damien Chazelle has crafted an effortlessly engrossing tale of the strive for greatness that becomes an almost unbearably tense experience.

  Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons deliver some of the best acting work I've seen in a long time, making their characters believable, relatable and constantly challenging our views of them. Their relationship moves the film forward, motivating every plot point. The film's tense pace never lets up, echoing the focus and determination Andrew and Fletcher have for their goals. The…