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  Mission: Impossible II 2000

  ★★½ Watched 31 Jul 2023 1

  Almost the entirety of this movie is very explicitly set in Australia. There's a lot of other stuff that's crazy about it but that's the one thing I can't get over. I doubt there's another American studio film where Sydney is seen and mentioned this much. The very first shot is a flyover of the Opera House. The climax hinges on the villain trying to take Thandie Newton to the Central Business District because she's carrying a deadly engineered virus…

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Jul 2023 3

  Very ironic that they tried to make a Barbie movie and accidentally made a Ken one. Patriarchy is unstoppable 💪

Popular reviews

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 21 Jul 2023 10

  Phenomenal work. I don’t think Christopher Nolan knows what sex is.

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  TÁR 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 26 Oct 2022 20

  Something I'd been mulling since my first viewing: is Tár actually any good? The person, not the movie. From what we see, she doesn't seem to be a particularly gifted composer, despite her EGOT status. She's regarded as a great conductor, but what does that really mean? When asked to explain why she's more than just a human metronome who's only there to mark time, her answer is basically, "Well, that IS why I'm there, but it's a very important…