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  Emilia Pérez 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Dec 2024

  I did admire this movie as an exercise in rethinking film genre rules - being a bold and ballsy musical. I also admired Zoe Saldana's and Selena Gomez's performances. I agree, though, with the critics. How can you make a film about a Mexican drug cartel leader with no actual Mexicans on the creative crew, with, of course the exception of the lead actress, Karla Sofía Gascón. Especially if you've taken a serious and sober tone.

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  I'm Still Here 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Feb 2025

  I want to say this film is an exquisite portrait of long-suffering and the haunting pain of trauma, loss, and endurance. The slow pacing, the empty spaces, the photographs... such a beautifully crafted film with extraordinary performances. But it is also more terrifying than any horror film. It's a glimpse into the abyss of the breakdown of law, of the hall of mirrors of lying dictatorships and their inquisitions. This is a past that is haunting us now as a harbinger of things to come.

Popular reviews

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  Midsommar 2019

  ★½ Watched 05 Aug 2019 1

  I guess someone thought, "Wicker Man" is a great movie, but what if we actually saw what goes on within that cult? Bad idea.

  I kept thinking: Really? This was the most interesting thing you could imagine?

  Within 5 minutes you guess where the whole thing is going and hope it will instead surprise you.

  And it will surprise you — you will be surprised that, instead of actual horror, you are bombarded with 12-year-old-sensibility moments that make the audience…

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 31 Jul 2023

  I give this 5 stars because it delivers exactly what it promises and hits just about the night right note at every turn. Charming, clever, great to look at, and, of course, the Kens steal the show without damaging the celebration of girl power and sisterhood. That's a lot to pull off in one movie.