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  TÁR 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Oct 2022 10

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

  femme whiplash 😍

  EDIT to say:

  In my work meeting this week, I found myself heartily endorsing TÁR — "Oh, I loved TÁR. Really good." A coworker who hadn't seen it piped up — "oh yeah, isn't that the anti-Me Too movie?" The line hits well. I can understand the allure of the easy summary. A movie about a predatory lesbian written and directed by a white man, starring a magnificent performance by a straight A-list actress whose best performance…

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  High School Musical 3: Senior Year 2008

  Watched 24 Oct 2008

  found this movie ticket on the ground in my childhood closet — saw this in theaters with my friend kyra and acted like i was, at 14, way too sophisticated to be there. same school year i read all the twilight books as “teen girl research,” purely from a sociological standpoint. absolutely mortified to be a teen girl.

Recent reviews

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  Dazed and Confused 1993

  ★★★ Rewatched 30 Sep 2023

  i can appreciate the atmosphere, a true time capsule, but it doesn’t connect with me with any special profundity. deserves its place in the canon. alright alright alright.

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  Cocktail 1988

  ★★ Watched 27 Sep 2023 2

  very strange when this movie because less about making cocktails and more about sugar baby-ing in Manhattan. confusing but watchable.

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  Hairspray 2007

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  Speed 1994

  ★★★ Watched 12 Apr 2021

  most realistic la plot point is that they keep almost dying because the city can’t finish transit and infrastructure projects on time