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  BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths 2022

  ★ Rewatched 03 Nov 2022

  Broke: Inarritu's 8 1/2
  Woke: Inarritu's 8 Mile

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  Monster Hunter 2020

  ★★★ Watched 15 Dec 2020 5

  Reign of Fire walked so Monster Hunter could jog; please stop criticizing straightforward blockbuster genre work about soldiers fighting dragons for bad writing.

  I know I'm a filthy apologist but this is the most polished PWSA film yet! While it lacks that kind of formal experimentation that one can usually expect from Anderson (ambitious editing/ narrative motifs that would probably get ignored by most anyhow), it's got fantastic special effects and a straightforward pacing structure that reflects its video game…

Popular reviews

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  The Circle 2017

  ½ Watched 27 Apr 2017 8

  Watch Emma Watson and Tom Hanks give a 2-hour TED Talk about why privacy is bad, I mean good, I mean bad? and about why freedom is good, I mean bad, I mean good?

  It's seriously an abhorrent work that inflates the very real issue of privacy to the point of belittling it. Alternates between laughably bad, uncomfortably cringey, and just flat-out boring. This is depraved, hateful cinema.

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  Paper Towns 2015

  ★★ Watched 23 Jul 2015 3

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