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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Sexy, riveting, fun. Black Bag is tightly constructed, it's silly, it's dark, it's disturbing, and it's deeply romantic. Despite plotting the globe-trotting intrigue of a group of spies, there's a real stage play quality to the proceedings here. A handful of characters, a variety of motives, and a winding and unwinding web of mystery stringing them all together.

  Fassbender and Blanchette are endlessly watchable. Soderbergh does an incredible job of pacing out the story and carefully raising and altering the stakes to make this a blast to watch. Wonderful stuff.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★½ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  Robert Pattinson is the beating heart of Mickey 17. He bring so much charm and life to the role. Unfortunately, I found the movie around him to be tonally spotty and convoluted.

  When Mickey 17 explores the connection between it's various lost souls, it sings, and it's affecting. When it unpacks how humanities cowardice and cruelty leads to pain, suffering, and self-destruction, it's effective. When it tries to be a biting political satire, it kinda failed to make me laugh…

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★ Rewatched 19 Jun 2023

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

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  Dune: Part Two 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Feb 2024

  Stunning, marvellous, epic. Dune: Part Two not only continues but escalates the story told in Part One. The scale of our setting has increased, as have the number of players, the agency of our characters, and the stakes. There is most certainly something lost in that transition. One of the great strengths of Part One was Villeneuve's ability to set the scene and framework of our world. Set pieces could be small yet thrilling; the murder hornet and box of…