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  Ferrari 2023

  ★★★ Watched 05 Dec 2023

  I don’t know if Mann intended for Penelope Cruz wrestling with a bank’s malfunctioning fountain pen to be more chaotically kinetic than the disastrous 1957 Mille Miglia but, man, he got it.

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  American Fiction 2023

  ★★★ Watched 28 Oct 2023

  It’s hard not to detect a whiff of Alexander Payne’s Sideways in the bouquet. But where Payne’s film embodies the meme that “men will literally use their priceless 1961 Cheval Blanc to wash down a Clown Burger meal than go to therapy,” American Fiction shows Ellison putting in the work.

  American Fiction seldom seems to embrace its dual identity as a broad satire of America’s cultural caste system for the way it keeps its minority artists in creative purgatory, endlessly…

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  Love 2015

  ★★½ Watched 14 Nov 2015 3

  A bit monotonous, a bit too long, sporadically intense, and I fell asleep multiple times. Just like actual sex.

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  The Danish Girl 2015

  ★½ Added 2

  Eddie Redmayne plays transgender the way actors in the '30s and '40s played alcoholics.

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