Favorite films

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Nov 2024

  The movie that’ll get both a nomination (and potential win for) The Oscar for Lead Actor and Lead Supporting Actor. Ralph Finneas was gripping and John Lithgow shows he’s grown since his time on the 3rd Rock.

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  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 1999

  ★½ Watched 07 Aug 2024

  Making a movie of a musical is hard. Turning a musical into a stereotypical 90s/00s music video for about an hour and a half is so much worse. 

  The musical itself is ok. High point is Close Every Door where Donny Osmond gave a performance of a lifetime. He is the only real bright spot of the film. Enjoyed the premise and how it was set up but having to follow a musical like this and made it worse, was surprising and oddly impressive.

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Sep 2023

  The greatest movie I will never watch again.
  A story that forces the viewer to look retrospectively on their idea of fate and people; where one can lose their sense of reality to instead dream and prophesies the what-ifs of lost loves.
  I watched this movie at a time where I too wonder if I missed my someone and to watch this movie again, I will only want to live more in that lost reality. So is the reason I…

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