Movies We Watch

I understand why this film won Oscars. Great story, great acting, well paced, visually interesting. I cared about these people. I didn’t want the ending I knew was coming to happen.
Penn was understated and really inspiring in this part. But then he is a really great actor.
And after vowing to never watch another Van Sant [...]

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Wow, quite a ride in this film. The CIA and the FBI not having any idea what is going on with each other, a secret CIA operative (so secret only one agent knows about him) infiltrating a terrorist organization, good guys and bad guys sometimes being the same guy. And Don Cheadle giving an amazing [...]

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I have seen a lot of films that were nominated or even won Academy Awards and I could not figure out why they had even been nominated. But this film deserved the award and any other that it got.
The story was told through flash backs to a young orphans life and the people he knew. [...]

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This charming documentary follow the sweetest little couple (a librarian and postal worker) and the fact that they are major movers and shakers in the NYC art community. They have been collecting art since the 50’s when they married and had the rule that it had to be affordable and fit in their apartment.
Amazing pieces [...]

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How can you not root for a Michael Cera character? You want him to get the girl, the RIGHT girl. Things have to work out for his characters or there just really is no justice in the world.
And in this film he does. They love the same things, they connect despite ex’s getting in the [...]

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This was a touching film about the toll that Alzheimer’s disease can take on a couple.
The inner cutting of the lead up to the hospitalization, mixed with the hospital footage (especially of her connecting with someone else and not knowing her own husband) and the footage of the connection the husband finally made with someone [...]

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This film was as good as everyone (yep, even the critics) said it was.
Engrossing tale and life lessons based on the Dylan mythology/story. Amazing performances by everyone that showed up in this film, and there were a lot of familiar faces here. I enjoyed the music, the stories. I was entertained and moved. The only [...]

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Awesome fight scenes and explosions in this ‘plague destroys society that is walled off from the world’ film. Woman that escapes Scotland (ground zero for this plague) as a child becomes commando fighter that leads a group back in 30 years later to find out how some people survived.
Why when a society becomes cut off [...]

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