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Magic Mike XXL 2015
Me 0 minutes in: oh ok, so we're making bro movies now? Bro movies are COOL now?
Me 5 minutes in: oh ok, so we're just like using our bodies to convey emotion through heart-stopping feats of skill and vulnerability? Cool, gotcha, whatever
Me 15 minutes in: OH ok is this what we're doing now? We're using gorgeously naturalistic véríte styling and 70s-esque New American Cinema overlapping dialogue to create a sense of unvarnished documentation and realism? Ok cool I…Translated from by -
Mickey 17 2025
Dang! A difficult movie to talk about because it's so ambitious, so messy, and is all over the Twister mat, tonally speaking. It definitely bears the stretch marks of a forever-delayed, forever-recut production, as narrative threads and characters appear and disappear in a way indicative of committee. I like and defend messy movies, so this isn't necessarily a huge ding for me. I also really like Bong Joon-Ho; after just seeing Parasite the other day I feel like I would…
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Barbie 2023
You can be anything and do anything, as long as it fits within the confines of rigid gender roles, capitalism, and the borderline-religious reverence for corporate brands. This movie has a thousand different fingers checking the pulse of the current moment, inserting abrupt, movie-stopping stabs at topicality and slam-poetry catharsis in the same way that DreamWorks movies insert Patton Oswalt zingers as comedy punchup. It is all at once: self-aware, questioning, biting the hand that feeds, self-satisfied, capitulating, and fundamentally…
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We're All Going to the World's Fair 2021
In the mid-aughts, you live in a little one-story rancher in a poor neighborhood. You don't go to school. You have two friends in the world, who you see four times a year. You have no car, and nowhere to go if you did; the outside is a warren of dingy strip malls, empty parking lots, endless weedy sidewalks. Travelling anywhere on foot you are consumed with fear you will be harassed or kidnapped. You don't understand politics yet, but…
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