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  • Before Sunrise
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • Prisoners

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  • Beau Travail

    ★★½

  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    ★★★★½

  • Y Tu Mamá También

    ★★★★½

  • Ballerina

    ★★★★

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Gladiator II

2024

★★★½ Liked Watched

Didn't even bother to ask me whether I was entertained this time.
Inconsiderate bastard.

Before Midnight

2013

★★★★★ Liked 17

Heart-breaking and heart-mending perfection.

Linklater's Before trilogy is the greatest ever committed to film. The way that they (presumably!) represent how love and people change is emotional awareness and beauty on another level. In many ways, this was the most beautiful of the three, because without this, it was incomplete. I know there are those who say that it would have been better just with the first, but I disagree - it is precisely that there are the second two,…

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Beau Travail

1999

★★½ 2

Oh I wanted to love this. I really did. I though I would.
Visually beautiful, but just far too abstract, slow and emotionally detached for me, so I didn't get anything out of it.
#JeSuisDesole

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

1964

★★★★½ Liked 2

Well that was simply marvellous, wasn't it Jack.
Kubrick was a master, Sellers was a genius.
Biting satire with genuine hilarity, and a powerful message.

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Dead Poets Society

1989

★★★★★ Liked 7

Perfection. I don't know how to describe this film other than that.
It made me feel things that no other film has ever made me feel.
Beautiful. Emotional. Perfect.

Ballerina

2025

★★★★ Liked 2

If Ana De Armas set me on fire, I would thank her kindly, and die as considerately as possible

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