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  • La Haine
  • Stop Making Sense
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  • The Northman

    ★★★★½

  • Beach Rats

    ★★

  • No Other Land

    ★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

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  • The Northman

    The Northman

    ★★★★½

    Im lowkey eggerspilled now. Kind of #relationshipgoals too

    This has like 5 action moments that feel like something a kid would come up with while playing with their action figures and it goes hard af

  • Beach Rats

    Beach Rats

    ★★

    The script is ass; Harris Dickinson gave me body dysmorphia too.

    After ruminating for a bit, I also want to mention how frustratingly anachronistic this movie is. Not a smart phone in sight, but a Denzel Curry song from 2016 is playing diegetically? Vape shops are a thing, but Grindr hasn't been released?

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  • No Other Land

    No Other Land

    ★★½

    No Other Land review by that friend that's too woke:

    - Harrowing raw footage that captures a blatant, severe, and dare-I-say intentional failure of international law.

    AND

    - A meta-narrative about the fim's creation that implies a fundamental misunderstanding between the two storytellers.

    Had I watched this movie before seeing Yuval's Oscar speech, where he seemingly creates a false equivalency between Hamas' October 7th crimes and Israel's ongoing genocide and occupation in Palestine, I likely would have enjoyed this film…

  • Babygirl

    Babygirl

    ★★★★

    Everybody I know gave this movie either 0.5 or 1 star, so I'm really surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I also feel the need to type a lot in my defense.

    I absolutely understand why some people might be uncomfortable with the characters' very weird and outlandish sexual fantasies. Despite juggling a narrative that's full of taboo and sticky topics, Babygirl finds the humor in it all. The vulnerability of communicating sexual boundaries can feel extremely awkward, and…