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Oppenheimer 2023
This movie is absolutely haunting. It does an amazing job at making me - the viewer - feel a tiny speck of the horror of bringing the atomic bomb into the world (and changing it irreversibly).
The bomb building / Los Alamos is simultaneously the core of the movie and also completely secondary to the real story, which is American Jingoism, McCarthyism, the military-industrial complex, the absolute ruthlessness and callous inhumanity of people maneuvering for political power, and - most…
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2023
The perfect amount of nostalgia and in-jokes.
I do think it got a bit dark when the one character said "The only hope is the hope of the release of death" and then Baby Mario and Baby Luigi said "Fuck-a dis shit, let's-a get fucked up on shrooms" and then they had a VERY long mushroom trip. Seems unnecessary and not kid-friendly.
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