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  Longlegs 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Jul 2024

  conveyor belt of a multitude of genre mechanisms from occult shenanigans ,analogue cipher-procedural and suburban inhumanity that weaponizes sound as it’s main vessel of portent & boxed out aspect ratio for its jagged flashbacks

  real atmospheric indifference in the general matter-of-factness with which the characters plod through some of the cruelty. Empty neighborhoods,an almost malevolent loneliness in both longlegs’ and harker’s mom

  Cage is borderline superfluous to the film’s proceedings,purely an aesthetic tether whose entire performance is almost antithetical to the…

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  Den of Thieves 2: Pantera 2025

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 26 Jan 2025

  greed as the most fundamental human emotion, the intersection of nervy camaraderie and basic decadence,the agony of allowing oneself to slip into a life you want after the order you never wanted has finally been wrest from you. And then forcibly exiting it not for honor,or code ,but ego even at the risk of the only friendship you’ve ever truly had. The thrill and ambience of setup, of preparation, of pretend and the effortless graduation from eurocrime escapade to metallic…

Popular reviews

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  Sorry to Bother You 2018

  ★★★½ Watched 04 Aug 2022

  Confident but not altogether revelatory indictment of late stage capitalism 
  Perhaps it’s most interesting satirical conclusion is the illusion of ascent offered to the most talented,useful members of the underprivileged. The illusion that they are better,have a chance at a seat at the high table and that they can afford to “watch and root for revolution from the sidelines” only to arrive at the foot of the table to discover that they are little more than ,at best, a novelty…

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  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 2023

  Watched 03 Sep 2023

  thinking of this as like the apotheosis of the franchise send-off movie,and wondering at what point during the construction of this trilogy did Gunn begin to realize and consider this installment not as just or even as it’s own story but as an active,extended culmination of maybe 4 hours of prior storytelling? And then in that process decide that the snarky raccoon was the untapped emotional core to build that send-off around,and appreciating the difficulty of that despite my general…