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Recent reviews

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  The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie 2024

  ★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Daffy Duck:

  - severe ADHD
  - trans (he/him pronouns but can lay eggs)
  - conspiracy theorist
  - one friend
  - jobless
  - criminal record
  - gay (lisp)

  pick a struggle my dude

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  Interstellar 2014

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025 3

  The things that are great about Interstellar (the visual effects, the production design, the sound design, the earnest Zimmer score, most of the acting) I’m sure have already been praised much better than I could. So I’ll just rant for a second about why this is not a 5-star film for me.

  Between this and Oppenheimer, I now realize that someone needs to sit Christopher Nolan down and just tell him to make TV. Nolan is apparently addicted to coming up…

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  Makayla's Voice: A Letter to the World 2024

  ½ Watched 26 Dec 2024 3

  Julio Palacio’s Oscars-shortlisted documentary, Makayla’s Voice, is one of those rare films that is not merely bad, it threatens to make the real world a worse place. It purports to tell the true story of Makayla, a nonverbal autistic girl who has suddenly unlocked magnificent communicative abilities in the English language, at the age of 14, with the help of her “conversation partner,” Roxy, who clutches a laminated piece of paper and “prompts” Makayla to point to letters.

  Palacio makes…

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  Sing Sing 2023

  ★★½ Watched 07 Sep 2024

  This is an elevator pitch extended to over 100 minutes of runtime.

  To be clear, there are a few things I like about Sing Sing. All of the actors give committed, emotive performances. They’re trying their hardest. The film features stark, refreshingly undecorated cinematography. (Until the very end), the pacing of the film is refreshingly unhurried. Above all, Sing Sing is an affectionate portrait of a real-life theatre program that has obviously meant a lot to real people, and for that reason,…

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