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  "description": "You couldn't ask more of a spinoff in the John Wick . I hesitate to say this was perfect, but it's very, very close. I mean, really close. Razor close. None of these movies shy away from violence. They love it. They revel in it. Everything is violence. There are few rules outside of an oft-observed code of behavior expected of guests in the Continental. Eve's life was shaped by violence and she takes to a life of violence with ease. Lose your father, avenge your father. John experiences loss, he avenges loss. It's a dangerous line of work, attachment leads to loss, loss leads to revenge. It's always revenge. It's always loss. And there's action and violence. That's what we show up for. The loss is a pretext for the action and violence that permeates the film. The scene with the table and the belt full of grenades? Wonderful. There's flamethrower fights, a duel with a flamethrower and a firehose. Do you extinguish your flaming limb or hope that hitting your opponent with it harms them more than it ultimately does you? What brutal unbelievable calculus. The freedom to cut short the villain's monologue with a single shot (lord that guy was tiresome — who joins that cult?). Beautiful in the same way the originating Wick is and much the same way The Raid is.",
  "path": "/watching/movies/ballerina-2025",
  "publishedAt": "2025-07-08T14:05:00Z",
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  "tags": [
    "thriller",
    "crime",
    "action"
  ],
  "title": "Ballerina"
}