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  Quiz 2020

  Rewatched by Michael Sicinski 11 Aug 2022

  I’ll say this: it’s the better of the two British productions based around Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, but that’s not saying a lot.

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  A Chiara 2021

  ★★½ Watched by Michael Sicinski 30 May 2022

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  If you are a filmmaker or group of filmmakers -- let's say, the Dardennes brothers -- the desire to combine a rough cinematic realism with contemporary sociopolitical problems is understandable. It allows one to employ techniques (close-ups, handheld camerawork, the intense observation of a restless main character) that convey urgency. Or at least that's how we have customarily learned to read these techniques. So by applying that approach to the complex issues of a changing world, a filmmaker at…

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  Creepy 2016

  ★★★ Watched by Michael Sicinski 14 Jan 2017 22

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  I miss the old Kiyoshi. The can't-be-sold Kiyoshi. Back in the fold Kiyoshi. That was the bold Kiyoshi. Remember Cure Kiyoshi? That wasn't your Kiyoshi? 'Cause that was my Kiyoshi. Damn, that was fly, Kiyoshi! You came with Kairo, Kiyoshi. That shit was fire, Kiyoshi! Even Bright Future Kiyoshi, that ill repute Kiyoshi. I dug it all, Kiyoshi. So why'd you stall, Kiyoshi? And then that Journey to the Shore? You got some gall, Kiyoshi!

  I miss the real…

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  The Imitation Game 2014

  ★★ Watched by Michael Sicinski 16 Jan 2015 18

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  If you happen to follow my Twitter feed, you'll know that I've already gotten a bit hot and bothered about this film. In retrospect, it was probably a good deal of energy wasted, or at least misdirected. I tend to forget that useless dreck like The Imitation Game is pimped on every streetcorner around Oscar season by an industry that considers movies as product, not art. Most of the time, that product is slathered in Adam Sandler, and it…