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Sicario, Experimenter, and Faults

Catching up, while I still remember them...

Sicario - in which Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro are trying to stop Mexican cartels from trafficking drugs underground, there are bodies hidden in the walls and treachery hides behind every corner! Good but uncomfortable.

Experimenter - in which Peter Saarsgard plays the doctor at Stanford who conducts the infamous Stanford experiments. Winona Ryder is the female researcher, love interest and sweet and sincere. Surprising: people experimented on were happy to have been a part of it, results were widely contested.

Faults - in which Mary Elizabeth Winstead is stuck in a cult, and an old, sad man tries to de-program her using boringness. May have stayed in cult, didn't finish.

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