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  Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget 2023

  ★★ Watched 26 Feb 2025

  A children's film about mechanized genocide.

  Not as good as the first.

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  Emilia Pérez 2024

  ★★ Watched 11 Feb 2025

  Why?

  Why make this a musical?

  Few of the songs are memorable, they are poorly done, and they add nothing to the whole schema. I somewhat enjoyed "El Mal" with its critique of hypocrisy (which is promptly forgotten about), but the rest? Nah. Excise that crap; and I say this as a lover of musicals.

  Is this the train-wreck I was expecting? Not quite. Yes, its politics of representation are more than wanting (heck, even I can tell about the mismatched accents), but I somewhat admired the sheer messy audaciousness of the whole thing. I'm a sucker for melodrama, and this certainly has it in abundance.

Popular reviews

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  The Horse Thief 1986

  ★★★★★ Added

  The "2001" of Tibetan Buddhism.

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  Mothra vs. Godzilla 1964

  ★★★½ Added 1

  Twin Caterpies use string shot on giant lizard. Awesome!
  Apparently the song the twins sing is a Japanese-inflected Indonesian. Neat!
  Egg man is the best. Yum!

  But be prepared to hear the same music cues over and over again... yet not nearly as much as the same Godzilla cry. Skreeeeonk!

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