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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★ Watched 22 Jul 2023

  When I was a kid, my favorite things to play with were stuffed animals, plastic horses, Legos, and Hot Wheels. Probably in that order. I had a couple of Barbie dolls that a neighbor gave me, but they rarely got touched. I avoided the "pink" aisle at the toy store. The thought of playing with toy humans that weren't manufactured by Lego just didn't appeal to me.

  So when I first heard about this movie and saw stills from the…

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  Beau Is Afraid 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Apr 2023

  What the fuck did I just watch?

  I don't mean to imply anything bad by asking that, I really don't, but I think this might have earned the title of the strangest movie I have ever watched. It was just one crazy-ass scene after another and I'm not entirely sure that I actually understood what the hell was happening in it. It was kind of a horror, kinda of a comedy, and kind of just an acid trip without the…

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  The Matrix 1999

  ★ Rewatched 13 May 2020 5

  This film was released in theaters in the spring of my senior year of high school. My friends and classmates absolutely raved about it. So I watched it. 

  With its slick costumes, Sci-Fi premise, slow-motion stunts, characters with names like "Neo," "Trinity," "Cypher," and "Morpheus," and a soundtrack that features the likes of Prodigy, Rage Against the Machine, Massive Attack, and Rob Zombie, The Matrix came off to me then as tryhard "hey, look how edgy I am!" bulls***. I…

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  Genocide 1982

  ★★★½ Watched 14 May 2020 12

  I don't have a whole lot to say about this as I never really know how to review or rate documentaries. I think overall it did a fine job of stirring emotions but then what Holocaust film doesn't?

  I was a little surprised to learn (or perhaps relearn? I can't recall it ever being covered in school) how many countries, including the U.S., turned a blind eye to the suffering of the Jews and refused to offer sanctuary to those…

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