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  Drag Me to Hell 2009

  Rewatched by brendanowicz 05 May 2022

  Future generations will not understand why the Apple product placement was so heavy

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  Unforgiven 1992

  Rewatched by brendanowicz 03 May 2022

  Very writerly movie but stays juust on the right side of being too precious and the images and performances slay. The opening and closing titles have always seemed unnecessary to me and I love them just the same. Standout moment: the long beat before Munny fires that last shotgun blast and Clint’s nostril flares and he looks like a wild boar. Hackman goated

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  Zola 2020

  Watched by brendanowicz 03 Jul 2021

  Riley Keough deserves either a Nobel Prize or jail

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  Nomadland 2020

  Watched by brendanowicz 20 Feb 2021 5

  The movie aims for a documentary style and represents itself as a hybrid feature; the narrative following Frances McDormand's character Fern has the actress playing scenes alongside an ensemble of nonprofessionals. Some of them share stories of loss and struggle in extreme close-ups that do not feature McDormand, suggesting that her opposite reaction shots have been filmed separately and spliced together with the monologues. As well, the non-monologue scenes present themselves as self-conscious displays of spontaneity: every interaction between characters…