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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★ Watched 29 Dec 2024

  It's tough to make a movie about Bob Dylan.

  That is to say, it's tough to make a movie about a guy who wears sunglasses everywhere he goes, doesn't trust anyone, and speaks almost entirely in mumbles. I entirely understand Mangold's decision to cast Chalamet. This is not a slight; Chalamet is very good. Everyone in this movie is very good. It's just tough to make a movie about Bob Dylan.

  A COMPLETE UNKNOWN relies on the tried and true…

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Sep 2023

  A gentle, sunlight-infused tone poem that unfurls itself like a lazy tabby. I loved how deftly these characters navigated such treacherous terrain in a way that would normally succumb to melodrama and thrown dishes in lesser hands. I loved how it explored borders, both cultural and emotional. I loved how it caressed me, even when it stung. Definitely one of my favorites of the year.

Recent reviews

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  Presence 2024

  ★½ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  If PRESENCE had been made by anyone other than Steven Soderbergh, it still would have been a bad film. When you have a story this flat, a script this cringey, and a group of actors whose talents range from poor to midland, there’s just not much you can do to make it work. Part of the issue for me was the POV framing, which is kinda the reason the movie exists in the first place. But since you don’t find…

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  While it doesn’t quite have the depth and bite of PARASITE, it’s still a ton of fun, and the performances are great all around, especially Ackie, who makes the most of a juicy role.

Popular reviews

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  Judas and the Black Messiah 2021

  ★★ Watched 12 Feb 2021

  This one didn’t fully land with me. 

  I mean, it’s timely, that’s for sure. But it’s also a movie that struggles to decide what story it wants to tell. Is this the story of Bill O’Neal? Because if so, the character of O’Neal is underwritten, leaving stanfield, a fine actor, with little in the way of guidance as to how to show us who this man really was, what drove him to do the things he did for as long…

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  Glass 2019

  ★★ Watched 19 Jan 2019

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