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1984

★★★★ Liked Watched 05 Jun 2025

Certified Coen classic. Because of course it is. 

Hard to assess whether sleepiness hampered my enjoyment at all, but boy was I locked for that third act. Outside of how obviously gorgeous and tonally confident it is for a debut feature, you get a great sense for their knack at character writing; they wrong such tragedy and complexity out of what should be such trite characters, and the narrative outcomes are always just spectacular. They might genuinely be top 4 for me at this point, it’s so serious.

1959

★★½ Watched 04 Jun 2025

“60-minute horror movies where 90% of the action occurs in the last five minutes” is one of my favorite genres, and what we have here is a classic example.

Its big stumbling point here is being unsure of what its characters’ motivations are and saddling the viewer with the task of untangling a pretty thin and unrewarding narrative themselves; still, Susan Cabot anchors the film well and it’s not… that boring.

It is pretty funny that a movie whose sole…

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2025

★½ 1

They’ll tell you this is just a male power fantasy, and they’ll be wrong because I’m male and my fantasy is just to go to the movie theater and watch a film that doesn’t totally suck balls.

2024

★★★★★ Liked Watched 09 Sep 2024

“I finally buried him in the storyboards. I killed him.”

I don’t think I’m gonna survive rewatching this movie.

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