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  Blade Runner 2049 2017

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 Feb 2025

  You look like a good Joe…

  Denis Villeneuve’s bleak and beautiful elegy on the mundanity of a regimented existence, the unbearable search for meaningful connection and the quest to find out what it truly means to be human even though you are a robot…or a cyborg…or something.

  The original Blade Runner is nothing short of a miracle. Ridley Scott still at the relative sophomore stages of his career coming off the critical and commercial success of Alien and his very…

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  The Conversation 1974

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Jan 2025

  "I am not afraid of death. I am afraid of murder." - Harry Caul

  (Insert Al Pacino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood “what a picture” meme right here)

  What a picture indeed. Tense. Atmospheric. Anxiety-inducing. Unsettling. Prescient. Foreboding. All words I would use to describe the experience of watching this masterpiece from the master Francis Ford Coppola.

  Coppola was ‘in his bag’ as the cool kids say these days. Superb casting. Phenomenal screenplay. Masterful editing. Great use of the…

Popular reviews

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  Hud 1963

  ★★★★★ Added

  Martin Ritt's spectacular anti-western follows Paul Newman's boozing, womanizing iconoclast Hud Bannon & the destructive effect he has on everyone around him. Features excellent supporting performances and superb expansive B&W photography by James Wong Howe.

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  Déjà Vu 2006

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Jan 2025

  U CaN sAVe heR
  
  A great example of how we used to take movies (in particular the 'high-concept' movie) for granted.

  Fired up the ol' Criterion Channel and decided to revisit 'Deja Vu' on a complete whim tonight. Probably a good 15 years since I watched it. I figured you couldn't go wrong with Tony Scott and Denzel Washington (and Paula Patton 🥵 🥵 🥵) and boy was I right.

  I'll get to the movie in a bit but what…

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