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  Anora 2024

  ★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  very funny and very sad, baker clearly has an ear for how people communicate which makes the movie difficult to feel outright averse to. it is a film about the conditions of life under capitalism which is fundamentally only concerned with characters. but apart from the flashiness and the humor, i'm hesitant to say there's *that* much under the surface here that one wouldn't necessarily glean from the cliffsnotes version. i just can't imagine wanting to
  rewatch this at home.

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  feels like a film about the inadequacy of liberalism (or at least it read that way to me), trying to map this onto american politics without taking into consideration the myriad of other ways this film is obviously trying to ask you to read it feels.... at least somewhat critically irresponsible. i suppose not everyone is going to care about a film ruminating on faith and the future of the church but despite its theological generalities conclave is very much a…

Popular reviews

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  Despicable Me 3 2017

  Added 4

  This site's current synopsis for Despicable Me 3 sounds vaguely as though it was not written by a human being.

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  Dancer in the Dark 2000

  ★ Watched 22 May 2019

  Lars Von Trier's view of human nature has never been more pathetic or disingenuous or tedious as it is here, and arguably more frustrating is that Dancer in the Dark had undeniable potential to be something deeply sympathetic and human. The film's narrative contorts itself into an ableist framework by comtinually insisting that death is preferable to life with disabilty rather than engaging with its characters in any meaningful or profound way. Von Trier also, in his big "twist" moment,…