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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  A bit all over the place, but there's plenty of gold in here. Bong in Okja mode. I actually think it this might have made more sense in a limited series format. He sets up such an interesting world, and then never quite has the time to explore any one avenue to a totally satisfying degree. Several plot threads feel underbaked. Robert Pattinson is having the time of his life, though.

  
  Also Twilight by Elliott Smith starts playing at one point… like really quietly. For an entire scene. There was a split second when I thought my phone started accidentally playing music.

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  Mildred Pierce 1945

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Feb 2025

  Absolutely ridiculous plot, but it looks gorgeous and the costumes are incredible.

Popular reviews

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  Else 2024

  ★★ Watched 10 Sep 2024 2

  TIFF 2024 #2

  Begs the question: what if you made a horny covid isolation "body horror" movie with AI generated "psychadelic" visuals and glacial pacing?

  The answer: watch something else.

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  Deadpool & Wolverine 2024

  ★ Watched 28 Jul 2024

  So happy for the Free Guy crowd right now.

  
  Look, Ryan Reynolds delivers a metric ton of quips (mostly of the no homo variety), and a few of them land. But from a structural standpoint, this is one of the sloppiest blockbusters I have ever seen. Complete, utter failure to tell a story with meaningful stakes and rising action. The plot seems entirely guided by unmotivated momentary thrills, like a first draft with no outline written in sequence by a…