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  Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022

  ★★★ Watched by TajLV 10 May 2022

  Dr. Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) quickly became my favorite Marvel character in his 2016 titular debut film. Photographic memory, control over time, fluent in Google translate... my kind of nerdy superhero. Then, he made what I thought to be an odd minor appearance in Taika Waititi's "Thor: Ragnarok" (2017) before taking what looked like his final bow in 2018's "Avengers: Infinity War."

  I wanted more of the Tibetan-trained Sorcerer Supreme, and I was happy to see him resurrected in 2019's "Avengers:…

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  In the Name of God 2007

  ★★★ Watched by TajLV 20 May 2022

  Part of My Silk Road Challenge (Pakistan)

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  Mulholland Drive 2001

  ★★★★½ Watched by TajLV 09 Aug 2014 31

  No hay banda! It's all a tape. Il n'est pas de orquestra. It is... an illusion! ~ Bondar at Club Silencio

  This magnificent movie will mess with your mind. Over a five-hour period on Saturday night, I watched this film carefully, read up about it on the Internet, and watched it again with frequent pauses and rewinds. I know I liked it. I think I get it. But one never knows for sure with David Lynch.

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  The Squid and the Whale 2005

  ★★★½ Watched by TajLV 04 Aug 2014 6

  Dad is a pretentious jerk. Mom is having serial affairs. Little brother is cursing like a sailor, masturbating at every opportunity and smearing his semen on library books. Older brother is plagiarizing Pink Floyd lyrics and passing them off as his own. But hey, it's Brooklyn in the 1980s. The solution, of course, is for the parents to divorce and arrange for joint custody of the kids. Or is it?

  This highly autobiographical family drama from Noah Baumbach is a…