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Recent reviews

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  Course of Action 2024

  Watched 28 Jan 2025

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  Watched 27 Dec 2024

  “You got kids?”
  “Thousands of ‘em.”

  Stubborn immobility can and will infiltrate even the most open and progressive of circles.

  Timothée, consider this my public apology for ever undermining you — this is a performance to remember. Monica Barbara and Elle Fanning are also standouts, and the dynamics between the 2 pairings at play convey so much complexity and passion without having to say so in direct dialogue. 

  I was deeply inspired by this - the ‘everything is suddenly immeasurably…

Popular reviews

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  Wildcat 2023

  Watched 12 May 2024 2

  How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?” — Joan of Arc 

  I had the privilege of attending the screening in Savannah, Georgia, the birthplace of Flannery O’Connor. Despite being a native southerner and a student of literature to boot, I admittedly knew very little about O’Connor until shortly before the screening. A few weeks ago, I purchased a complete collection of her fictive works. Upon reading the editor’s introduction, which provided some insight into O’Connor’s…

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  Joker: Folie à Deux 2024

  Watched 03 Oct 2024 2

  A more interesting watch than its predecessor. Possibly (and very likely) due to Gaga as Lee. I’m surprised that so many people are turned off by this one. I am probably more drawn to Joker: Folie à Deux because it is a more individual story than Joker (2019), which felt more broad-scale-political by nature. 

  Sincere connection trumps artificial belongingness every time. The fantasy is beautiful but it can lie to us, too. 

  Suffers mildly from runtime, but overall an enjoyable watch.