Thought this was called “Presents” and was more of a “Santa-Home-Intruder” film. Lucy Liu was good though!
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Anora 2024
This is what it’s like to be young in 2025. If you’re poor, you have no upward mobility, so you sell your body. If you want a decent paying job, you go six figures into debt. If you were born rich, you have no sense of personal responsibility or respect for the previous generation that enabled you to be rich. There are no good examples in the mainstream for healthy masculinity. You can hit the lottery by betting on shitcoin or marrying rich; or be the equivalent of an uber driver in one of our many tech “disrupted” industries: the choice is yours.
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The Killer 2023
On first glance, this is a run of the mill, pulpy revenge-o-matic, but underneath lies a half apology half explanation letter from David Fincher to us about making MANK, the current state of the film industry, and the craft of filmmaking.
Fincher is clearly The Killer. A cold, surgical, perfectionist with a slick aesthetic. I personally describe his visual style as “Apple Store”. We meet The Killer on a job contract in France, staking his next kill. He’s essentially location…
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Bully 2001
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I was a teenager in South Florida in the early 2000s, so let’s just say this film really spoke to me. High school kids get bored all around the world, but there’s something about South Florida boredom that can lead to some heinous shit. I went through an upper class, K-12, private, mostly Jewish school system, but my friends and I were always 1 to 2 degrees away from a drug kingpin, weapons…even a tiger (once on a camp field…
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