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  The Boy and the Heron 2023

  ★★ Watched 15 Oct 2024

  It's really pretty. It sounds pretty good. The music is decent to good. The voice acting is solid. The story is more confusing than it needs to be, it feels like it relies more on vibes than it should. And the pacing is awful, the first half takes forever and then the second half where all the cool shit happens is kind of rushed. None of the cool shit even ends up making much sense but it does look really…

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  Heat 1995

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Oct 2024

  Holy shit this movie fucking rips. It's been a long time since a movie has gripped me the way this one did. It's perfectly paced, the characterization is incredible, the narrative progression is so well done, the twists and turns are well earned and shocking, and it puts forth some thought provoking thematic questions. I was not expecting to be confronted with deep thoughts about the nature of loyalty and what it means to have the courage of one's convictions…

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  The Fabelmans 2022

  ½ Watched 03 Feb 2023

  It's one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

  Utterly boring, emotionally manipulative, terribly written, awfully acted, and lacking any semblance of heart.

  It's a damn shame it turned out like this because it has the bones of a good, albeit simple, story, but they absolutely fucked it in every way possible. It's obscenely long for what it's trying to accomplish, has absolutely no sense of pace, and has no emotional core whatsoever.

  During the opening scene I wondered whether…

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  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992

  ★ Watched 27 Jun 2019

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

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