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The Salesman 2016
1/31/22 Wears out its welcome long before the end. The characters all seem sketchy, the plot more than cumbersome. If there are any ideas here, I didn't find them.
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Putin's Witnesses 2018
1/31/22 An informative behind-the-scenes glimpse of Putin's first year in power, and how his videographer now feels about it--as well as how Boris Yeltsin and his family felt about it back then. I learned a lot about today's Russia from this, and as well as much about Putin.
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001
Only Kubrick and Spielberg, working together on different time planes, could create such a philosophical and intellectual heartbreaker.
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