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  Bottoms 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  There’s a lot of inconsistency in how much or how often the movie asks you to suspend your disbelief, which can make it easy to just check out entirely. Even though it’s a comedy, that’s kind of an issue, since I don’t think the humor is strong enough to fully carry the story if you don’t engage with it emotionally. It’s got a lot of charm, though, and it’s fairly imaginative, and there are plenty of funny moments. Definitely worth watching.

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  Chungking Express 1994

  ★★★ Watched 22 Feb 2025

  Just felt too goofy and unbelievable for the grounded sentimentality it seemed to be demanding of me.

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 10 Apr 2022

  Very very good. It’s too bad that the minions sequel is coming out or this movie might have had a chance at some awards.

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  The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Nov 2023

  Some really good bits and pieces but I was not a huge fan of the execution. Many of the characters felt very goofy while the tone remained very serious, and some of the one liners like the whole “rainbow of destruction thing” felt similarly in opposition to the tone they were trying to cultivate, made it really hard to emotionally connect with any of it.

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