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Emilia Pérez 2024
"Doctor, you don't know what it's like to be a queen."
I'm not sure where my brain stopped trying to figure this movie out, but I was definitely gone by the time the obnoxiously huge TEL AVIV location marker came on and my ears had to listen to a god-awful doctor sing a god-awful song with that line ^ in it.
Then there's Zoe *checks notes* humping the table? During that one number. And Selena Gomez saying "My p$ssy still…
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Conclave 2024
After seeing the campy, tongue-in-cheek tweets and snippets of reviews about gossiping priests and an evil vape, I have come to give my two-cents absolutely no one asked for. Moment for applause and drumroll, please.
The film is, in short, quietly stunning. Not perfect, but contemplative and touching enough that my heart can give it no less than five stars. Quiet, with its use of wide static shots and moments where something as benign as breathing seems almost deafening. Stunning…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
Visually epic, sonically stunning, and performances that are so excellent seeing them ignored this awards season hurts me. I don't agree that Dune is a 'white savior' film in the way modern audiences understand that to mean—the books and the film go a long way to warn and caution against charismatic leaders and religious fundamentalism. The trope is definitely being engaged with; Paul being a foreigner and an outsider who is suspected and feared to be taking advantage of the…
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