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  We're All Going to the World's Fair 2021

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 07 Aug 2022

  FINALLY, a narrative on a sector of the internet that is rarely, if ever, addressed in film. I suspect it’s because writers/directors of a younger voice raised in times of readily available technology have yet to be seen or heard in an industry still dominated by that older generation of writers/directors who refuse to embrace how casually technology is used by all of us today. Some defend it using the old “film is escapism” ploy, others recognize it’s because of…

Recent reviews

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  The Relic 1997

  ★½ Watched 05 Sep 2023

  Can someone tell me what happened I spent two hours squinting trying to figure it out

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  Saved! 2004

  ★★½ Rewatched 03 Sep 2023

  Can’t sustain itself once it drops the Jesus jokes and tries to shift tones. Bad music. Absolute mess of an ending. Kind of ugly looking too? Fun cast though!

Popular reviews

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Jul 2023 1

  Aside from how perfectly freaking realized Greta Gerwig’s vision is, it’s actually just incredible to see a movie with this much popularity stand for something more than distraction or be something more than a cash grab guised as a remake or fan flick. 

  Because 💖 Greta Gerwig 💖 we get so much more than immersive set design (amazing) and laughs (writing? cast? comedic timing? amazing), we get an entire observation of our world. And doing so through the interpretations of Barbie and Ken?! Loaded with significance and brilliance. 

  Watching it is VERY fun and VERY freeing.

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  TÁR 2022

  ★½ Watched 15 Nov 2022 5

  Following an alluring and methodical opening credits, we step into an impassioned- yet indecipherable- discussion to establish Lydia Tár’s genius. Genius noted. The tone is high-brow and I’m hopeful. Only by the second or third scene, we are confined by a language and conveyance so cramped, so unintelligible the film quickly lifts its vail; insipid. 

  Belittling and alienating his audience is a choice Todd Field had to have made early in the writing process. Lydia Tár is much less a…