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No One Will Save You 2023
Apparently the things they teach you in film school these days are How To Rent An ARRI Alexa and to Have A Friend Who Knows How To Use It
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Oppenheimer 2023
Took my parents to see this, which was the first time they had set foot in a movie theater in over a decade.
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Mission: Impossible II 2000
13 years old: WHOAAAAAAA AAAAAAWWWEEEESSSOOOOOMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEE
22 years old: what garbage, I prefer *art* films
31 years old: WHOAAAAAAA AAAAAAWWWEEEESSSOOOOOMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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The Matrix Resurrections 2021
I can't believe this was as good as it was (and I'm also a little peeved this came out 4 months after finishing my dissertation, because that whole project was basically asking why this movie didn't exist yet, lol).
There were a few cringe lib Gen X moments (all the stuff about snarky clap-backs to Problematic Guys doesn't really feel like a map out of just how dire the situation is that the rest of the film diagnoses...), but you…