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Recent reviews

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★ Watched 24 Feb 2025

  A fun enjoyable film

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★ Watched 09 Feb 2025

  Not sure what I think of this:
  -I preferred the performance debut scenes to the recording studio scenes
  -the Suze Rotolo and Joan Baez characters are rendered as just "Dylan's girlfriends" when they were so much more than that
  -Ed Norton is the standout performance as Pete Seeger (the world's loveliest man)
  -didn't really capture Dylan's state of mind (impossible) or the atmosphere of the early '60s folk scene (possible)
  In conclusion, hit me like a freight train. loved it!!…

Popular reviews

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  The Terminator 1984

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Sep 2024

  The 1980s were a strange time

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  Tripping with Zhirinovsky 1995

  ★★★★ Watched 05 May 2022

  An interesting exploration of Russia's weirdest politician: bizarre ultranationalist, supposedly teetotal vodka salesaman and one-time sex guru. I think the film does a pretty good job exploring Zhirinovsky and getting at what his "deal" was but it lacks the almost dream-like quality of Serbian Epics. It's also visually less striking but I think given the difference in subject matter that's not entirely surprising.

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