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  Pusher II 2004

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  Okay hang on.
  This film is extremely heart breaking the whole time. 
  Asking myself “why am I so empathetic for such a piece of shit?”

  The Safdie’s could only dream of making this film and they ripped it off for Uncut Gems and likely Good Time.

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  What Love Is 2007

  ★★★ Watched 16 Feb 2025

  A great vibe and a great screwball

  (Chicken noodle soup for the souls of herterosexuals)

Popular reviews

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  Tabu 2012

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Dec 2024

  Jesus it’s still so good. Third time made it even better.

  The mirroring of the colonial and romantic crimes is a connection that is better understood in the poetic lyricism and dramatic timing of the film’s narration that any preconceived notions about expecting a message from the film. 

  The first scene when Aurora and Ventura meet is the scene that flips a switch in your brain from paying attention to language spoken to language inferred. It uses the intentional jarring…

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Nov 2023 2

  Fantastic!
  I couldn’t imagine seeing this after Oppenheimer in a double feature. That would be an absolute rollercoaster, jfc.

  Let’s call up Hasbro to make a film in the G.I. Joe franchise about the male suicide crisis.

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