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  • Suicide Squad

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  • Empire of the Sun

    ★★★★

  • Novocaine

    ★★★½

  • Opus

    ★★

  • Black Bag

    ★★★½

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  • Empire of the Sun

    Empire of the Sun

    ★★★★

    I think I like Spielberg best when he gets kinda weird with it.

    Christian Bale's really good in this. It is weird to watch him, because he has one of those really defined child-actor faces where he looks eerily like adult Christian Bale.

  • Novocaine

    Novocaine

    ★★★½

    My uncle actually had congenital pain insensitivity. It’s a gnarly condition in real life — fucks with all your systems. He was wheelchair bound for the last decade and he died pretty young.

    I watched this movie wondering how he would have felt about it, and honestly, I think he would have gotten a kick out of being portrayed as a superhero.

    This movie mostly works because of the first twenty minutes, which does such a good job of taking…

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  • Our Drawings

    Our Drawings

    The thing about outsider art by severely mentally ill artists is that mentally ill people are just people.

    Sometimes you get "pure" art by artists like wendyvainity, who has these visions that are both joyful and terrifying, and has learned computer animation as a form of therapy, sharing both her joy and her terror with the world.

    But just as often, maybe more often, you get a flawed work like this, with the artist's all-too-human motivations overshadowing his artistic vision.…

  • Paddington in Peru

    Paddington in Peru

    ★★½

    One more thing I wanted to point out about this movie: there's this trope in fiction where, when they want to show a character is "really into" Scrabble, they'll have the character shout out the "point values" of words.

    Like someone will say "zebra" and they'll be like "ZEBRA, sixteen points!"

    Like wow, you really sit around computing "how many points" a word is, on a branch play with no multipliers, no hooks, and no bingo bonus? Good luck breaking…

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