As a B body horror movie this is a fun ride with some clever and slickly made moments. As a satire about beauty standards and Hollywood it is incredibly lacking and only (wait for it) skin deep (boooo hiss). It fails to say anything interesting about the subject and in fact undermines it’s own point by having the punishment for the protagonist’s desperate chasing of youth and beauty be her getting older and uglier. “Be happy with your body at…
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Speak No Evil 2024
Ben is the worst girl dad of all time. McAvoy is so good in this role and really makes this a fun watch. Ben is the absolute worst.
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The Place Promised in Our Early Days 2004
A couple of cool visual moments but mostly a boring mess of a movie pretending to be deep and poetic. The movie also has a questionable gaze on the main female character. She goes to see where the two boys who are crushing on her work and the boss is apparently into her?? There is the pointed line where he is talking to her (a child) while blushing and the boys are looking on and one asks if their boss…
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Problemista 2023
Julio Torres did not disappoint with his directorial debut. Problemista is hilarious, heartfelt, strange, sweet and utterly unique. It is so rare to see a movie in this era that feels like a singular vision of a fresh creative voice like this. The whole cast was great, but Tilda Swinton is especially excellent (and exhausting) as the manic Elizabeth. The choice to have her phone light constantly on every time her phone is out is such a perfect touch.
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