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  Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 2022

  ★★★★ Rewatched 06 Feb 2023

  Much improved on second watch. The dense plotting plays better, but the messiness of the film also becomes clearer. Two specific moments of unmotivated character stupidity derail the impact of things. First is when Namor decides that, after having diplomatic breakthroughs with Shuri, his beef isn’t about the scientist and protecting vibraniun-rich nations from would-be conquerors. He just wants to wage war on the surface. That’s a switch, when he could have resolved things there. 
  The second is when Nakia…

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  The Final Countdown 1980

  ★★ Watched 02 Feb 2023

  A film ripe for remake

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  Kimi 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Apr 2022

  An excellent neo-Hitchcock riff
  We still don’t appreciate Soderbergh enough

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  Happily 2021

  ★★ Watched 20 Mar 2021

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

  Really hoped to love this one. Not compelling enough to justify being that opaque. Ambiguity as needless affectation. The characters were treated with cynical dismissiveness such that the landing didn’t surprise or land at all.
  I was enjoying it, because it seemed to be leading to having a point, like a Twilight Zone episode (which is directly and indirectly referenced), until it turned out to be nothing, meaning nothing, and gaining insight into nothing. 
  Apparently it was some [fill in…