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  Wicked 2024

  ★★★★ Added

  The production/costume design and the entirety of the Dancing Through Life sequence are enough to make me give it this rating, but there's so much else going for the adaptation I was so scared to give a shot. Fantastic performances, some really inspired visual language, and a frankly impossibly smooth use of a 3 hour runtime.

  A few points deducted for Jeff Goldblum bringing the film to a grinding halt every time he was on screen. I know the man…

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  Uzumaki 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Sep 2024

  They did the impossible. They somehow made it scarier.

  Some of the most breathtaking rotoscope animation in recent memory, that does incredible justice to the source material while also knowing exactly how to elevate it. I've read the manga. I know where this story goes. And yet I am filled with a deep unknowing dread all the same.

  Everything I could have hoped for.

  EDIT: Hm.

  Perhaps.

  Perhaps I spoke too soon.

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  Velvet Buzzsaw 2019

  ★★ Added

  A movie that is not bad because of its threadbare plot, boring characters, overly self-aware dialogue, and nonexistent rules, but TERRIBLE because of all the promise buried beneath its threadbare plot, boring characters, overly self-aware dialogue, and nonexistent rules. I'm mad at Velvet Buzzsaw for existing because it means we'll most likely never get a better take on a genuinely fun concept.

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  Paddington 2 2017

  ★★★★★ Added

  A movie that really only needed to be cute and appealing and instead is not only both of those things (in spades), but also incredibly thoughtful, powerful, humorous, affecting, and gorgeous. The setups in this movie are so good they’re almost textbook, the characters are just so darn LIKABLE, and yet P2’s strongest point lies in an unwavering hope in humanity that has been so rare in the entertainment industry of late that it is now nothing sort of brave. Believe the hype. Do yourself the largest favor and check this out.

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