Watch List Weekly Recap 12/29/23

Just one this week, but it's the big one.

Watch List Weekly Recap 12/29/23

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The 20 Best Movies of 2023

Ty Burr • Dec 29, 2023

It has been a bleary, weary, worried year. We are coming up on the fourth anniversary of COVID, the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the third month since Hamas attacked Israel, and another day of brutal, needless mass extinction in Gaza. Oh, and the 50th year or so of ignoring climate change. All this in the 7th year of Our Dark L…

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