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  The Philadelphia Story 1940

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  Well I just loved this. 

  First off, drunk jimmy stewart. Second, drunk jimmy stewart. 

  Going into this I really just wanted one good scene where Jimmy and Cary went toe to toe and while I didn’t quite get that, what I did get was confirmation that no one has ever done it better than Katharine Hepburn, a true 1 of 1, peerless now, then, and forever. Perhaps the only person who could do what she did is in fact cate blanchett, Scorsese knew what he was doing. 

  Also, what the hell did people think Philadelphia was like back in the day

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  The Monkey 2025

  ★★½ Watched 22 Feb 2025

  Try-hard! An uneasy balance of good craft and well engineered Moments with absolutely uninteresting unfunny “hey! hey! watch me do a kick flip!” desperation. 

  The kind of weird mish mash that makes one suspicious of the good stuff if it came from the same place as the bad. Finding a hairball in your juicy cheeseburger. I felt like a math teacher grading a hyperactive kid’s test, seeing that he absolutely nailed hard equations while failing at really simple stuff, like cmon kid I know you got it in you, why can’t you follow through?

Popular reviews

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  The Brutalist 2024

  Watched 20 Dec 2024

  I was at a small dinner thing with a bunch of other filmmakers the other day and the kid sitting next to me wasn’t a filmmaker at all but in fact a young architect, and the rest of us flocked to him beatlemania style, fawning with questions and hungry for his thoughts on things and vision of life. Filmmakers love architects, maybe it’s because a building is essentially structure with adornments which I guess is what a movie is. 

  Anyway,…

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  Rebel Ridge 2024

  ★★★½ Rewatched 28 Aug 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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