difficult to watch something that i find so objectively confident in its tone and structure and story, knowing full well how its been seen and censored and derided, and not spend an entire review talking about how a lot of viewers have been projecting and willfully misreading actors. so i won’t do that, because i think betsey’s film speaks for itself, and i also think that if you have the ability to put your own ego and aside for 80…
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Black Bag 2025
a director having two great movies out within one year is already an embarrassment of riches for the cinema-starved public. but two great movies out within two months? that’s like being served the will to live and the meaning of life on the same platter and being told that you can indulge in both. (spoken from a presence defender.)
black bag is easily the most fun you can have at a theater this year. a whip-smart, wit-heavy spy romp that energizes…
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Mean Girls 2024
cute, i guess! lacks almost all of the bite of the original film. why the fuck are we sanitizing lines like "you can't join mathletes, that's social suicide" to "that's socially ruinous." shut up and get mean!!!!! should be called Cuttingly Sardonic Girls. genuinely think everyone involved was afraid that tiktok teens wouldn’t remember that depiction doesn’t equal endorsement, because where are the insults? reneé rapp good (but weirdly not in the movie that much?) but avantika is the breakout…
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Red, White & Royal Blue 2023
the most uncanny thing i’ve seen in a minute. at last, we gay people are allowed to be boring, have absolutely no chemistry with our romantic co-leads, and exist as nothing more than walking homosexual archetypes. at one point, my boyfriend and i were throwing out imaginary lines uma thurman could randomly utter in her southern cate blanchett impression that would fit into this scarlet fever dream of a script and said “honey, we’ve gotta get you on truvada.” two minutes later, those words left her mouth.
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