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Recent reviews

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 04 Feb 2025

  i choose to read this as a stinging rebuke of young people who don’t invest in their 401(k)s

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  Nickel Boys 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Jan 2025

  a harrowing depiction of america’s evil

  hell of a movie to watch on the morning of january 20, 2025

Popular reviews

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  Gladiator 2000

  ★★★½ Rewatched 11 Nov 2024 1

  I am, in fact, still entertained.

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  Napoleon 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Nov 2023 1

  Napoleon 

  This was perhaps not the Napoleon movie that I expected or the one I would have made myself. But Ridley’s Napoleon takes an epic of a life that could be made into several sagas and applies a targeted ambition—the kind of ambition one gets the sense Ridley thinks Napoleon should have had at Waterloo. The result is an intimate if somewhat unflattering portrayal of the modern-day Caesar’s rise, peak, and fall. 

  The movie centers around Napoleon’s ambition during the…

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