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  May December 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Nov 2023

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

  There’s so much here!! Elizabeth being so determined to see everything from Gracie's side & to make her into a three-dimensional person made me think of whenever you try so hard to move outside your own cultural bubble and find common ground with people you disagree with and they just KEEP throwing up red flag after red flag that you have to pretend not to hear if you want to maintain any kind of civil relationship. When Elizabeth's fiancee suggests Gracie…

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  The Killer 2023

  ★★★ Watched 19 Nov 2023

  Getting immediately arrested after I botch an assassination because I can't decide which Smiths mix to play then trying to use a fake passport that says "Bart Simpson."

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  Nomadland 2020

  ★★½ Watched 13 Mar 2021

  This movie bothered me! It comes out of the gate feeling like it's gonna be some thoughtful paean to 'forgotten America' -- a factory has shut down, a town has collapsed, and Fern's government couldn't care less about her. But over the course of the film, she's offered a chance to stay with a friend, then a chance to live with her sister and their family, then a chance to live with a male companion and his family, and she…

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  Inside Llewyn Davis 2013

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Apr 2021

  Ah, a story about someone who's pretty good at what they do but not transcendent, isn't gonna "make it," keeps growing nonspecifically bitter towards no one, also doesn't try *that* hard, and just kinda keeps getting by day to day? ABSOLUTELY CANNOT RELATE!!! I uh, don't play folk music.

  This movie's a little tense, a little funny, a little sweet and endearing, a little chilly -- just non-stop entertaining and moving in little ways that didn't feel contrived or sweaty.…

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