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  The Banshees of Inisherin 2022

  Watched 29 Jan 2023

  Instantly one of my favorite films about the creeping, confusing despair loaded into the act of simply being here.

  It's a film about endings; the number one thing human beings are fundamentally incapable of processing – the ending of friendships, of comfort, of wars, of time here on earth and of knowing the person you've always believed you were – and how incredibly silly that facet of human nature is. It's tragic, and deeply sad, and so so so so…

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  The Fabelmans 2022

  Watched 13 Jan 2023 6

  never felt more seen by a movie than that mirror shot imagining how you'd frame up the worst thing that's ever happened to you.

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  Thor: Love and Thunder 2022

  Watched 07 Jul 2022 7

  The movie equivalent of when everyone procrastinates on the group project up until the hour before it's due.

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  Tenet 2020

  Watched 22 Aug 2020 24

  I, a lifelong, hardcore Nolan fan, just don’t know how I feel about TENET, and I don’t know if I’m ever going to.

  It’s weird, because in the five days since seeing it (and I’ve been lucky enough to see it twice already), I’ll find myself in moments thinking “oh my god I love it”, and then a minute later thinking “Chris, what the fuck”.

  And I don’t really know how to break that down.

  The scale, scope, ambition, spectacle…