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  Interstellar 2014

  ★★ Watched by Lorenzo Zoil 17 Aug 2020 4

  Michael Bay directs Neil deGrasse Tyson talking to Joe Rogan.

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  Whiplash 2014

  ★★★ Watched by Lorenzo Zoil 17 Aug 2020 3

  I’ve got to split the difference on this one, as there are always two parts of me watching it. 

  As a piece of storytelling and film craft, Whiplash excels. The performances are fantastic, the direction and editing perfectly match and capture the intensity of the scenes, and the protagonist’s descent into a sort of madness is believable. There is one shot at the end, as our hero plays the big, improvised solo, of his father’s face taking it all in.…

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  The Predator 2018

  ★★★★ Watched by Lorenzo Zoil 07 Aug 2022 2

  You’re all wrong.

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  Crimes of the Future 2022

  ★★★ Watched by Lorenzo Zoil 30 Jul 2022

  “Surgery is the new sex” says the girl who’s clearly never played paintball.

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  No Country for Old Men 2007

  ★★★★★ Watched by Lorenzo Zoil 10 Jan 2020 2

  The only movie I’m willing to call perfect.

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  The Two Popes 2019

  ★★★½ Added by Lorenzo Zoil 13

  Fighting the urge to write a joke review, as this wound up being both moving and compelling in ways that ohhhhhhhh fuck 2 Popes 2 Furious, Look Who's Talking Too Popes, the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Popes, The Lord of the Rings: the Two Popes, Y Tu Popes Mama Tambien, Two Popes if by Sea, Two Popes and a Baby, Two Popes for the Money, Pope and Poperer: When Benedict Met Francis, Two and a Half Popes, Two Broke Popes,…