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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  This is Trump satire for people with irreparable brain damage.

  If you've ever wondered what it's like to spend 137 minutes being beaten over the head with the most on-the-nose storytelling imaginable, and then have Mark Ruffalo bite you so hard that his veneers pop out and lodge themselves in your broken skin, I have a movie for you.

  I left the theater complaining that this felt like a bad Netflix movie, but that does a disservice to Bong Joon…

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  Sex and the City 2 2010

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  It’s not often that you witness a piece of cinema that feels 20 years too early. SATC2 is a fever dream and a prescient glimpse into our Trump-dominated future. This is Trump Gaza before we could ever begin to comprehend it. Watching this for the first time was a monumental cultural moment.

  Please note: this film was watched back-to-back with the directors cut of the first film, and I had smoked 1 cigarette and drank 1.5 bottles of wine by the time I pressed play.

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  May December 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 03 Dec 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★½ Watched 14 Jan 2025 2

  Having Orlok’s bloodlusty bottom sub guy who looked like Peter Pettigrew bite the head off a pigeon was a choice.

  As the saying goes: “beautiful gowns.” The less said about the acting of everyone (besides Dafoe and Skarsgård) the better. I shouldn’t be dozing off during the climax of a vampire movie, yet there I was resting my eyes through half the dull dialogue.

  The movie should’ve just been about a hapless man (whose mutton chops were NOT glued on…

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