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  Thief 1981

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Sep 2023

  Jimmy Caan manifests his vision board, which includes Jim Belushi for some reason.

  (Also: is Jessie the most fully realized female character in Mann’s oeuvre?)

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  Brewster's Millions 1985

  ★★½ Rewatched 10 Sep 2023

  $30mm in 1985 is like $85mm in 2023. You might be crazy, Uncle Rupert, but I feel like I could burn through that pretty easily on the services economy alone. But maybe I’m just built different.

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★ Watched 01 Aug 2023

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

  1) At times this felt like a three-hour trailer for a movie about a grown-up boy named Bobby and his magical childhood friend Albert (who will always manage to pop up at just the right moment).

  2) I had no idea you could cram this many head-slapping “omg he said the line” moments into a single screenplay. Total groaners, the lot of them.

  To that point, when I saw people talking about Oppenheimer saying the line while getting ridden cowboy-style…

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  Road House 1989

  ★★★½ Rewatched 12 Aug 2023

  Road House comes to us from a historical moment when monster trucks had tremendous cultural salience as signifiers of wealth, power and manly virility.

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