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  • A Beautiful Mind

    ★★★½

  • Anora

  • About Extra Hours and Volunteer Work

    ★★★★

  • Guanabacoa: Chronicle of My Family

    ★★★½

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  • A Beautiful Mind

    A Beautiful Mind

    ★★★½

    Just an elaborate excuse to make some wicked detective boards.

  • Anora

    Anora

    An overhyped fiasco of a movie: awkward, contrived, corny, cheap, off-putting and cringeworthy comedy, not in an edgy way.

    Are we supposed to actually laugh and rejoice while Anora gets abducted, abused and gagged with a red scarf for an hour?

    A class struggle dynamic with no redeeming qualities is touched upon here and there, across several characters, but is overall flattened by the grotesque comedic distortion that envelops the whole thing. 

    Anora embodies the dehumanizing consumer fantasy of a devoted worker who loves the consumer so much she does not conceive of her servitude as labor.  (Marla Cruz)

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  • The Swimmer

    The Swimmer

    ★★★½

    Burt Lancaster’s series of perfect bellyflops epitomize the failure of masculinity. I giggled out of fear: how pathetic can we be?

  • The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run

    The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run

    ★★★★½

    I’m a better human now

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