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  • The Ugly Stepsister

    ★★★★

  • Sorry, Baby

    ★★★★½

  • Longlegs

    ★★★

  • Mean Girls

    ★★

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  • The Ugly Stepsister

    The Ugly Stepsister

    ★★★★

    I like the male full frontal nudity and barn sex and general bawdy brutality of this movie a lot ! Proves a lot of what’s on shudder is better than 1/2 of what’s coming out of Sundance at least !

  • Sorry, Baby

    Sorry, Baby

    ★★★★½

    Hard to overstate how surprisingly good this movie is and how life affirming that was

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  • Fire Island

    Fire Island

    The Charlie character was a complete fantasy projection. Who is he? What does he want? What does he like about Howie? Perhaps there’s the shrewd observation that the gay upper middle class professional characters are boring and vacuous to the point where they almost lack interiority let alone personalities, and therefore are only desirable because they are rich and (mostly) white. Well observed. But the lingering feeling after the romance plots are tied up, is that the landed gentry, despite how boring and vacuous they may be, will always win, whether it’s in the sexual marketplace of Regency England or fire island in 2020s.

  • Maestro

    Maestro

    ★★

    The whole thing is a dirge for a dying afternoon. I never felt like the movie tapped into Bernstein’s vitality. Carey does a lot with what could have been a turgid and thankless role. On the plus side, I will say Bradley cooper’s narcissistic projection is maybe less shame based and grandiose than when Matt Damon wrote “Good Will Hunting”. At least his alter ego isn’t a janitor who happens to be smarter than every kid at Harvard. I kept…

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