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  Captain America: Brave New World 2025

  ★ Watched 19 Feb 2025 1

  I recently moved somewhere new and I don't really know anybody, and this really nice-seeming person asked me if I wanted to go to the movies, and it's good to get out now and then, isn't it.

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★ Watched 07 Feb 2025

  A trip to the museum can be great, but a well curated exhibition imbues artefacts with the life of their original purposes, drawing the past forward and merging it with now. This movie is mostly a dead thing, a regurgitated clot of a self-cannibalising culture that can't do or make anything new, certainly not movie stars. I'm tired of looking at this fucking guy's face. There are some beautiful performances in the periphery, filled with intelligence and grace and gentle…

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  Your Fat Friend 2023

  ★★ Watched 21 Feb 2024

  It's very possible to take the true observation that people respond better to personal stories than data and run way too far with it. This might be an instance of the profound incompatibility of certain American and British sensibilities (both poisoned and degraded in their own ways), but I just don't think anyone should ever make Retweeting Praise: The Movie, however admirable and good and important the things they've done. Feels mean to say about someone whose chief (and entirely…

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★ Watched 02 Jan 2025

  Post-nut bloodburp + dessicated spindle-twig expiration representation is so important! I do that and that is like me! Having said that, and pace all the heat and loinishness in what I've read about this, I found the trudge to the only likely conclusion dreary and a bit sterile. Wet and crunchy, yes, but like lettuce. The pretty, almost fussily crafted gloom felt very unlike the musty, earthy, urgent sensuality of some of his other things, which I prefer. I did…

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