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  • Rocky IV
  • Aftersun
  • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

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  • Brokeback Mountain

    ★★★★★

  • Chilly Scenes of Winter

    ★★½

  • 21

    ★★★½

  • Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

    ★★★½

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  • There Will Be Blood

    There Will Be Blood

    ★★★★★

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

    I’m trying to be good about not obsessively rewatching this film (I was TWBB sober for a year and one month!) but today felt like a good day to revisit my favorite film. No particularly new insights but I did latch on specifically to Daniel’s flawed approach to seeking human connection. He narrows his definition of family to blood relation, shutting off any notion of a found family or friendship of any sort. When he thinks he’s found his long…

  • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

    Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

    ★★★★★

    Yes, attentive viewers, this is my fourth watch, and yes, my third watch was last night. At this rate, I’m single handedly bankrolling Shrek 5. However, it is my birthday today, I had to see something in theaters, and this is the only movie out right now that I’m interested in watching. Plus I got to drag along two of my friends that I had been begging for them to come and see this, so I think this third rewatch…

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  • Brokeback Mountain

    Brokeback Mountain

    ★★★★★

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

    Yesterday me and my friends were searching for a movie to watch and while scrolling through Netflix Brokeback Mountain came up. I was the only one in the group that had seen it before, so they all asked what I thought of it. They seemed to think it wasn’t that special of a movie, saying “isn’t this just the gay cowboy movie?” in a dismissive tone I didn’t like. I gave what I felt was a passionate rundown of the…

  • Chilly Scenes of Winter

    Chilly Scenes of Winter

    ★★½

    I’m left with a lot to chew on thematically and there’s a bleakness to it that I love, but my actual experience watching this I was bored more often than not

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