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These are the movies I’ve watched over the last 5 weeks while I was in Florida but forgot to post about them:

🎬Dumb Money: Liked it. “Everyday people flip the script on Wall Street and get rich by turning GameStop into one of the world's hottest companies.” Good movie. Paul Dano was especially good. I somehow completely missed the news story this movie was based on.

🎬The Many Saints of Newark: Meh. This was the prequel to The Sopranos TV series. I loved the series but this movie was not even in the same league; nowhere close to how great The Sopranos is.

🎬Paterson: Loved it. Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. Adam Driver plays a bus driver/poet in Paterson, NJ. His wife is a quirky, creative dreamer. They have a dog named Marvin. Very Jim Jarmusch, which is a good thing.

🎬The Holdovers: Liked it a lot. “A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.” Nominated for numerous Oscars including Best Picture, Actor, Supporting Actor. A new Christmas movie.

🎬PoorThings: Loved it. “Set in a steampunk Victorian England, “Poor Things” follows Bella Baxter, a Frankenstein's monster-esque reanimated corpse of a pregnant woman who committed suicide, only with the unborn child's brain put into the full-grown adult body.” Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo are both great.
This movie is visually stunning. Also nominated for a bunch of Oscars including Best Picture, Actress, Supporting Actor.

🎬Asteroid City: Loved it. Also visually stunning. Awesome cast. “World-changing events spectacularly disrupt the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention in an American desert town circa 1955.” Loved the juxtaposition of the 1950s sci-fi and the very serious play. It’s a Wes Anderson movie. It’s hard to explain. You have to see it.

What movies have you seen lately and how did you like them?