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  • The Last Black Man in San Francisco
  • Phantom Thread
  • Paddington 2
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  • Conclave

    ★★★★

  • Citizen Kane

    ★★★★½

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★½

  • Sing Sing

    ★★★★★

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  • Conclave

    Conclave 2024

    ★★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2025

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

  • Citizen Kane

    Citizen Kane 1941

    ★★★★½ Watched 19 Feb 2025

    put this on on a random tuesday evening thinking that it would be mid and i would be able to smugly log it as "mid" on letterboxd only to realize with dawning horror over the next hour and a half that everyone was right and it is actually excellent.

    it's crazy to me that this was made in 1941! all of the themes it covers about america are somehow even truer now than they were back then. my intuition is…

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  • Mother, Couch

    Mother, Couch 2023

    ★★★★ Watched 09 Sep 2023

    gonna start employing a chainsaw to get people to pay me back

  • Sing Sing

    Sing Sing 2023

    ★★★★★ Watched 08 Feb 2025 2

    we don't say that in here. we use beloved.

    this was gorgeous and so so full of heart. the rta inmates at sing sing insist on maintaining their humanness in a place that is designed to strip it from them. casting the former inmates as themselves was genius—every performance was insane and i was on the verge of tears for most of the movie. the use of natural light and the film grain creates a warmth that bleeds through every…

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  • Poor Things
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  • Paterson
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