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Recent reviews

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  Pearl 2022

  Watched 31 Dec 2022

  Instant classic. Period.

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  Avatar: The Way of Water 2022

  Watched 01 Jan 2023

  Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

  This is still a lame stupid white savior narrative like it always was and the visuals, while technically impressive, are corny and over baked. As with the first Avatar, the only good and memorable parts are when the hollow creepy anime-cat-alien-people just shut up and look at a bunch of imaginary plants and animals. The best parts of this franchise could be packaged up in one of those fictional guidebooks for kids, like Dragonology. Just give me the cool alien biosphere and spare me James Cameron’s awful takes on family and colonialism

Popular reviews

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  Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot 1946

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Nov 2018 1

  Stalin: Hey Sergei Mikhailovich, one (1) propaganda please.
  Eisenstein: Ivan the Terrible was a Big Dick Special Big Boy Just Like You!
  Stalin: Great! Another please.
  Eisenstein: Leaders on either side of a conflict will use emotional pageantry to justify their actions, but this cannot absolve them of their terrible crimes. Power is not seized by moral superiority, but by murder and cruelty.
  Stalin: Um.
  Eisenstein: Also, you are literally Satan.
  Stalin: Please die of a heart attack (allegedly).

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  Joker 2019

  ½ Watched 06 Oct 2019

  This movie is bad but not as bad as the fact that it has somehow been taken so seriously by so many people that we HAVE to talk about it and why it’s stupdi when its stupidity should really just be self-evident. But y’all really see some above-competent cinematography and some edgy pseudo-provocative dialogue and think it means that a movie has anything of value to say smh.......... we really are all clowns