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  The Swan 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 28 Sep 2023

  This one was much better than "Henry Sugar."

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  Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

  ★★★★ Rewatched 13 Sep 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Is this Martin Scorsese's last movie? This is the one question I've tried to answer in the months since I first saw "Killers of the Flower Moon." Much has and will be made about the length of this picture, and the complaints are warranted: it is easy to imagine a shorter, tighter, better version. But if this is the end for Scorsese, he's certainly earned the right to leave everything up on the screen. "Killers of the Flower Moon" is…

Popular reviews

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  Dune 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Aug 2021

  Samuel L. Jackson tells a story about seeing "Star Wars" for the first time on opening weekend in 1977. Everyone in the theater was smoking weed, he told "60 Minutes" a couple of years ago, and when the opening titles exploded onto the screen, it blew him back into his seat. He had never seen anything like what George Lucas had created.

  I saw "Dune" at a press screening in August. No one was smoking weed, everyone wore masks. But…

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  Morbius 2022

  ★ Watched 31 Mar 2022

  An unbelievable failure before the two most inscrutable and deranged post-credits scenes ever put on film. Every scene feels like it was cobbled together from dailies and alternate takes that were reframed in post to fit on screen. Not one single moment works. Best theatrical experience since “Cats.”