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  Novocaine 2025

  ★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Kind of a nothing movie in that it's aggressively not terrible (almost inoffensively so) while watching it and a day later has all but faded in sensation from my brain. Some of this is Jack Quaid who, as far as I can see, just does not have it. Amiable enough and pleasant but almost too uncannily good for the everyman dynamic of the role that just makes me shrug. Some of it is the script which maybe should be meaner?…

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  Pattinson has long established himself as one of the more exciting of his contemporaries. His one-two-three punch of tortured souls in Good Time, The Lighthouse and The Batman are possibly the strongest trio of his career thus far, a trio of sharp dramatic turns. Dare I say the comedy here rivals, and even surpasses this? Pattinson has always been known for his impish willingness to be funny, even if the humour is mostly relegated to interviews. Mickey 17, bold and…

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  The Kid Detective 2020

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Sep 2020 2

  Have you ever seen a movie deconstructing itself? There’s a metatextual quality to the narrative progression here that’s right up my alley. The Kid Detective morphs from wish-fulfilment comedy to ambivalent arrested-development comedy to a mordant mixture of both then to satire before it shifts to a chilling psychological drama with flourishes that seems almost unpredictable. But the through-line, which the film progressively develops, is that this is a story of a man working through issues of depression and guilt…

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  Fire Island 2022

  ★ Watched 12 Jun 2022 4

  Allow me some pedantry: If you’re going to build your entire film on (poorly) paralleling Pride and Prejudice, feature Austen’s opening line as the first line of dialogue while  caustically commenting on it in a voiceover and then not acknowledge that Austen’s narrator is being deliberately ironic when they presume men are in want (a very deliberate pun; want as in desire but also want as in to lack) of a wife then I’m already second-guessing your approach to comedy, analysis or…