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Casino Royale 2006
The Royal Casino is one of the best Bond movies because it captures how global politics actually works. Money washes around the world and people who are clued in find it trivially easy to get rich. But because it's so easy, they get bored of that and start getting involved in schemes to manage the managers. So there is this layer within the rich that includes secret agencies and criminal hierarchies which mostly seems to fight each other and could…
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
I think I'm going to stop rating movies with stars. It feels weird giving this five stars. There were sagging parts and goofy parts and parts that felt out of place. But should I take off stars for that? I wouldn't really change anything. If I ever met Scorsese I probably wouldn't even be able to remember what I thought could have been better. I can barely remember now and I just saw it. At one point someone said "oil, black gold" and I rolled my eyes. But that's probably a reference to some particular movie or something. It's weird to review things, sorry.
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The Lives of Others 2006
This is goes pretty deep into the genre of "Movies for Adults" like something like The Red Violin or Incendies where it's like "Big History! Grand themes! Lots of Coincidences!" and there's always something a bit corny about that to me, but I'm also a sucker for it. I like the setting of East Germany and that dated sterile design. Not really sure about the politics or morality involved but I'm a grown up so whatever. I took German in…
