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  Carry-On 2024

  ★★½ Watched 25 Dec 2024

  New kink unlocked: Jason Bateman telling me how worthless I am via bluetooth for two hours.

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Dec 2024

  Cardinals can be divas too!

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  Godzilla Minus One 2023

  ★★★½ Rewatched 16 Jan 2024

  I went back and forth on a pretty “meh” opening act. The final two thirds of the film are buoyed by some good performances and  one of the best musical themes in cinema. This film has the scale and tension you would want from a monster epic and I probably will watch the sequel that’s hinted at towards the end - which is something!

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  The Zone of Interest 2023

  ★★★ Watched 06 Mar 2024

  I’m really fighting the urge to describe this film as doing too much. The insertion is the young Polish girl’s mission to hide food around the came and inclusion of Joseph Wulf’s “Sunbeams” didn’t feel developed or contextualized and the cuts to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum at the end of really threw me. Those moments were certainly poignant and heartbreaking, but felt out of place as the rest of the film also shines because of the taut and subtle storytelling.…

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