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Closer

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The Machinist

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A post-Fight Club Fight Club.

Terms of Endearment

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Shame of the Jungle

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Children of a Lesser God

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Cube Zero

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Pretty crappy.

Collateral

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The Wounds

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Serbian, similar themes to Natural Born Killers.

Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist.

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My Own Private Idaho

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City of Lost Children

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VS Naipaul: The Mystic Masseur

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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

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On Bernie's recommendation.

The Rage in Placid Lake

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Spartacus

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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Million Dollar Baby

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A Clint Eastwood insta-classic. Paul Byrnes wrote a glowing review in the Smage.

Key Largo

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Fat Pizza

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A bit funny, very trashy, and robustly representative of the contemporary Australian cultural output.

David Malouf: An Imaginary Life.

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A slow start followed by a gallop.

The Shining

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Intermission

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A terrible, cliché-ridden, Lock-Stock clone starring Kelly Macdonald.

Storytelling

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Finding Neverland

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It's a fabbo effort with Johnny Depp sporting a soft Scottish burr. Good to see Kelly Macdonald again.

Shrek 2

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The Merchant of Venice

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Good Will Hunting

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It made the most satisfying sound as it hit the trashcan.

Cecil B. Demented

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What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

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An early Johnny Depp effort.

David Malouf: Antipodes.

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Pirates of the Caribbean

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It just hit me (on this second viewing) that there is a complete absence of plot.