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  The Danish Girl 2015

  ★½ Added 1

  Eddie Redmayne plays transgender the way actors in the '30s and '40s played alcoholics.

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  Spring Breakers 2012

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 13 Dec 2013

  This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but with a “sprang breaaak forevvver.” Mathematically constructed and patient where even the best of his prior films were largely powered by unpredictable excretory gestures, Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers plays the long game with a terrifyingly short fuse. Casting Selena Gomez as a string bikini-clad Jesus freak and James Franco (given free reign to culture-studies up this bitch) as the parasitic candy man who lures her and her clique…

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  The Simpsons: Do the Bartman 1990

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  I might have to revise my 1990 top 10 now that I see this is on Letterboxd.

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  Triangle of Sadness 2022

  ★★★ Watched 25 Jan 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Hat-tip to my friend Chris for recognizing that the final twist is lifted, almost wholesale, from an episode of The Golden Girls.

Popular reviews

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  Love 2015

  ★★½ Watched 14 Nov 2015

  A bit monotonous, a bit too long, sporadically intense, and I fell asleep multiple times. Just like actual sex.

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  La La Land 2016

  ★★½ Watched 22 Nov 2016 4

  It's just heartening to know that, had it been released in 2016 instead of 1980, Xanadu would've gotten fantastic reviews.