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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★ Watched 28 Dec 2024

  Tune: Messiah

  After years of devotion to their beliefs, the Bene Gesserit (Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger) manifest their long-prayed-for savior, which unleashes a holy war between rival factions (Joan Baez & Suze Rotolo) who are in search of a curly-haired rodent boy (Timothée Chalamet) who will inspire the working class to overthrow the evil emperor who controls all (Alan Lomax), provided he drinks his new community's holy water (industrial-strength methamphetamines) and defeats Elvis (Austin Butler) in chart-based combat.

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  American Hustle 2013

  ★★½ Watched 23 Dec 2013 33

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  Spotlight 2015

  ★★ Watched 27 Dec 2015 6

  Noble mediocrity, of the most self-consciously humble order. Co-writer and director Tom McCarthy starts with an unnecessary flashback and tip-toes through the chronology of events with the literal-mindedness of a 7th-grade book report: Convenient facts, laid out in a row, delivered with the shrunken vocabulary of a child. It's a work of service-journalism that wants to be judged on its clear-eyed morality; it deserves to be seen as an artless, charmless piece of homework that refuses to challenge its audience…