last four:
black widow - 8
zero dark thirty - 9
the muse - 7
freaky - 7
now reading:
lonesome dove - larry mcmurtry
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The Harrison Marathon - A Podcast About Harrison Ford
It's good, but it really doesn't cover much that Greenwald's initial reporting didn't already spell out first. I'm a bit perplexed by the huge critical support, since I think you can wait until it inevitably winds up on Netflix and Amazon. There's nothing overwhelmingly cinematic about it that requires you to see it in a theater.
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
Nah, I think the craft on this is amazing. The subject itself is fascinating enough, but Poitras is one hell of a filmmaker.
I saw this with friends who had only a very vague understanding of what the Snowden/NSA affair actually meant. Oh, and I also found Beau and his girlfriend on my way out. We walked under a soaking rain for like twelve blocks.
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