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  Anatomy of a Fall 2023

  Watched 04 Dec 2023

  Just watch Clint Eastwood’s Sully.

  It is much better!

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  The Punisher 1989

  Watched 02 Dec 2023

  Haven’t watched the full film, but there’s this great camera move/scene that I wanted to talk about.

  
  20-30 minutes into the film, after a failed drug operation, a woman bursts into a meeting room full of crime bosses, and she tells them how things are going to go within the crime world from here on out.

  The camera swings around the room to follow her circling around the table like a shark, catching the faces of her victims while presenting…

Popular reviews

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  Dark City 1998

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 May 2018

  Something like a 90s version of Metropolis with a better story. There is an interesting idea running through this film regarding how much of our memory dictates who we become. I suppose in that respect the film is similar to other meditations on memory like Memento and La Jetee. I think there might be something to this whole memory thing considering my love for film, and my first memory being film related. My favorite scene is probably the first scene…

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  Annihilation 2018

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 May 2018 1

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

  I really liked this film. I thought the soundtrack in the beginning of the film was odd given the fact that for most of the scenes in the shimmer have a completely different style. My favorite scene was easily everything after Natalie Portman reached the lighthouse. It was hard to not be amazed as well as scared when the alien is created and following around Portman. The only thing that I’ve seen that is as unnerving as this scene is…

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