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  Midsommar 2019

  ★★★ Rewatched 27 Sep 2021

  I liked this better when it was called "The Wicker Man.

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  Porno 2019

  ★★½ Watched 27 Sep 2021

  Not much common sense going on in this movie. Of all the crap that gets thrown at these five Christian kids, I'm most bothered by the fact that a man with exploded balls still manages to walk and run. Wtf?

Popular reviews

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  Basic Instinct 2 2006

  ★ Watched 18 Aug 2017

  Sharon Stone so persistently owns what she does on screen in “Basic Instinct 2” that one is likely to find her conviction admirable, even if she is basically a PR agent selling a defective product with a straight face. Far lesser sorts might have inspired a sympathetic gesture, but this is a woman in no need of such pity – with every wince of her stern gaze and gurgle of a monologue she sneers confidently back at the camera, as…

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  La La Land 2016

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 09 Jan 2018

  The ambitious “La La Land” opens with a marvelous scene on a congested freeway overpass, where nameless extras vacate their cars to share in the moment of a colorful musical interlude. Their choreographed zeal is carried by near-perfect technical aptitude that sees the act lifted into the reveries of aesthetical greatness; the camera persists across four minutes of song and dance in one seemingly unbroken shot, and the routine is mirrored by dancers on top of cars that seem to…

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