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  Umberto D. 1952

  ★★★★★ Watched by CraigLumley 02 Dec 2019

  Life is suffering, go play with your dog.

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched by CraigLumley 18 May 2022

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

  Of course her third eye is a googly eye it's all so clear now

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  Inside Llewyn Davis 2013

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by CraigLumley 15 Apr 2022

  I'm not sure the Coen Brothers are what you would call "message" filmmakers, but if I've gotten any sort of lesson from their movies it would be to try to take what life throws at you in good humour.

  In the "making of" documentary on the blu ray, Oscar Isaac refers to the idea of life as a "cosmic joke" and says he thinks "Enlightenment is when you get the joke." Llewyn Davis doesn't seem like he has much of…

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  Out of Time 2003

  ★★★ Watched by CraigLumley 13 Jan 2017 5

  I'm not a complicated person. I didn't know anything about this but I rented it because it's cover had Denzel Washington in a Hawaiian shirt holding a gun. It mostly delivered.

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  Carol 2015

  ★★★★★ Watched by CraigLumley 08 Feb 2017 8

  I've NEVER wept at the end of a film like I did with this one.

  Being a young girl in the 1950s, experiencing this, Rooney Mara's character must have felt like she was on mars. Who knew life could be like this?

  Filmmaking at the highest level. How did they do it? Todd Haynes has built an emotional computer or some shit, so many wires, all working together, all perfectly placed.

  I don't know man, shit. It's real good.

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