Category: Movie
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A Real Pain
Reactions: Moved, Loved it, I cried // Review: I loved this movie. Jesse Eisenberg wrote and directed it and hats off to him. It’s a short but powerful movie. Kieran Culkin absolutely deserved the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Wow. I liked him in Succession but I absolutely was blown away by his performance in…
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Flow
Reactions: Cute, Liked didn’t love // Review: I liked Flow. It’s about cute animals bonding during a calamity. Cute. Sweet. But, it felt like it was trying to do something it almost did but didn’t quite execute perfectly. Something, something, rebirth, renew, life is a cycle, yada yada.
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Anora
Reactions: Heart-racing, eyes-glued // Review: Little did I know when I decided to finally rent and watch Anora that at that very same time, it was cleaning up over at the Oscars. Anora is racy. There’s lots of skin, boy and girl a like. And there’s sex and drugs and you worse. But it’s the…
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Queer
Reactions: Meh // Review: As always with movies I don’t love, let’s start with what I did like. It was sexy, even if bizarrely so. I appreciated how awkward Daniel Craig played the main character.
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Captain America: Brave New World
Reactions: “Fine,” Forgettable // Review: This is another one of those reviews of something that I didn’t like that much. But, Captain America, Brave New World was… fine. It’s what you’d expect from Marvel these days: Filler content to keep the franchise going.
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Wicked
Reactions: Captivating, Powerful, Moving // Review: I read the book in 2003. I saw the musical in 2005 and 2016. And last weekend I finally saw the movie. I know this is going to make me loathed across the lands, but I never loved the musical. It veered away from the book and/or left out…
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Sharper
Reactions: Twist, twist, twist // Review: Does Julianne Moore ever fail to impress? I loved her in this. And Sebastian Stan was fantastic too. I enjoyed Sharper quite a lot. Add this to the list of quality A24 movies. I loved the chapter-style storytelling technique. It starts out as a love story. Then there’s a…
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Kneecap
Reactions: Fuck yes. Watch this movie! // Review: I had no idea what to expect when I started Kneecap. But it turned out to be, to my surprise and delight, a foreign language film. Most of the film is in Irish which was so freaking cool to me. The story revolves around a rap duo…
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Emelia Pérez
Reactions: Dazzling, Bold, Groundbreaking // Review: I knew almost nothing about Emelia Pérez before watching it, except that it was a musical. I’m not always a huge fan of musicals, but I decided to give it a go. And I’m so glad I did. I have to start by saying how much I loved Zoe…
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Back in Action
Reactions: Fun, Action-packed // Review: This won’t be one of my lengthier reviews. Not because I didn’t love this movie – I did! Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx lead this fun, family-friendly spy movie. It’s just under two hours of good-hearted fun. It’s about two former spies who left the secret agent life to raise…
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The Whale
Reactions: Not what I expected, poignant. // Review: I’ve been putting off watching The Whale for at least a year. It has been on “My list” forever. But every time I’ve seen it sitting there on my watch list, I think to myself, “That’s probably too depressing for how I feel right now,” and then…
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My Policeman
Reactions: Cute, Gay, Sad // Review: If you’re looking for a British version of Fellow Travelers, then this is the movie for you. The production quality isn’t quite at the same level as F.T. but it’s still a well-produced movie.
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All of Us Strangers
Reactions: Poignant, Heartbreaking, Surreal // Review: This movie is stunning. It’s one of the slowest-paced movies I’ve seen in a long while. And as such, I almost gave up on it in the first ten minutes. But I’m so glad I stuck with it, even though I knew nothing about it and had no idea…
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It Ends with Us
Reactions: Triggering, Powerful, Gut-wrenching. // Review: I did NOT know what I was getting myself into when I pressed play on It Ends With Us. I honestly believed it was another cute romcom. And then the first “incident” happens. At first I thought, ok, it was an accident. Then the second one occurred and I…
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Juror #2
Reactions: Meh. // Review: This blog won’t all be things I like, but I will always try to at least comment on aspects of something I enjoyed. In this case, the acting is quite good and Nicholas Hoult shines. I’ll watch anything with him in it! Ok, that’s the good stuff. On with the “meh.”…
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