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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  i thank god everyday for robert pattinson — the weird little freak playing a menagerie of weird little freaks

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  Emilia Pérez 2024

  ★½ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  I suppose the question is whether or not Emilia Pérez was ever going to work. It's a musical, which the general audience seems to have a weird prejudice against; the plot revolves around a transgender cartel leader, which would piss off Conservatives for obvious reasons and would piss off trans people who would naturally — and REASONABLY — be apprehensive of any mainstream depiction of their community given the current political climate; it's directed by a French man with outspoken…

Popular reviews

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  Water Lilies 2007

  ★★ Watched 27 Jun 2021

  I'm sorry, but if this had any other name than Celine Sciamma on it than it would just be labeled as mumblecore bullshit.

  Yes, it's paradoxical and arguably impressive how Sciamma can convey everything with a frequently minimalist and almost cold perspective and still maintain a sense of intimacy. However, the elusiveness that she would later achieve in Portrait of a Lady on Fire was previously attempted in her debut, Water Lillies. It does not work. Portrait tries to evoke…

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  Tenet 2020

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Aug 2020

  My head hurts and my eardrums feel numb, but it was worth it.

  The sheer idiosyncrasy of the concept that everything stems from in Nolan's films still astonishes me, as does how wholly satisfying they can feel when all the pieces are in place. Tenet is once again Nolan performing a grandiose magic trick, and it even feels like it structurally. While it's complex and the music was drowning out most of the dialogue and I might need to watch…