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Emilia Pérez 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I would like anyone reading this review to please note that I saw this on someone else's Netflix account and did not pay out of pocket to see it.
When I saw my previous worst of the year a few months ago in cinemas, my main problem was that it had nothing going on and constituted an immature rejection of narrative. To summarize what I wrote down, it was nothing.
In Emilia Pérez, I have now found something worse than…
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Conclave 2024
I was expecting worse, I guess. The big twist didn’t leave too much of an impact, and the reaction from other characters didn’t really make much sense. I did like most of the way the setting is depicted, though, and enjoyed Ralph Fiennes playing the good guy for once. It’s fun when he does that:
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Mulan 2020
My original rating of 4/10 and a thumbs down was changed to a 1/10 due to a report in today's edition of the Wall Street Journal on the film's direct coordination with the perpetrators of the genocide of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.
Further reading: www.wsj.com/articles/disneys-mulan-faces-controversy-over-filming-in-chinas-xinjiang-11599586711
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The People's Joker 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I took an hour-long outing to Oakland by way of BART to see this film, knowing it's likely never coming to DVD, Blu-ray, or iTunes, and I'd say it was worth every bit.
The People's Joker has an air of guerrilla filmmaking and applies fair-use parody of DC Comics characters to a story that I found quite unique. I'll admit, I haven't seen many movies that could be called much of an allegory or a direct story told from the…
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