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  Mickey 17 2025

  Watched 20 Mar 2025

  Sure, it’ll take awhile for my mind to fully wrap around the absurd nature of MICKEY 17 in full, but I cannot pretend that I wasn’t over the moon by it as both a vehicle for social commentary and coping mechanism for current affairs. Satirical blast that cements Pattinson as a force to be reckoned with. 

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  Although a given that the oddball humor will certainly not jive with everyone’s tastes despite the delights of performance quality, I do feel…

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  Flow 2024

  Watched 15 Jan 2025

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

Popular reviews

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  Inside Out 2 2024

  Watched 18 Jun 2024 1

  Reservations at the very thought of a sequel aside, there's a quality to INSIDE OUT 2 that makes one question Disney/Pixar's strategies as a storytelling giant, and only further prods at theories of easy pocket-lining to propel the brand forward. This isn't to say that such studios lack in-house creativity, or haven't had "sleeper hits" of sorts in their new age of streaming and marketability reliance... but it is to say that their latest release veers towards the same familiar…

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  The Boy and the Heron 2023

  Rewatched 11 Sep 2024 2

  I find revisitation only reiterates my initial disconnect, a yield of little emotive response in spite of captivating visual artistry that's more than well-equipped to haunt and harrow should its written counterpart meet it halfway. There's no greater desire than to feel tugged at the heart by a piece that should (and could!) encapsulate the inescapable painfulness of navigating loss, yet I find its packed with everything but a willingness to linger long enough with such. Unfortunately neglectful of the acquaintanceship that we, as an audience, need desperately in order to feel just as interlinked, rattled, and transfixed.