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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025 4

  Among this film's detractors, I have to believe there's a very clever critic somewhere who employed a headline resembling "All Style and No...!" and I'm not going to look it up but I'm certain it exists because critics like to do that shit but also because the sentiment is not wrong. There's nothing The Substance is saying that hasn't been said before, and while that in itself isn't a sin, writer/director Coralie Fargeat has invested so much energy into the…

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  Count me in for any story put in motion because of a macaroon-related debt

Popular reviews

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  Shakes the Clown 1991

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 11 Jan 2018

  There's no way this movie deserves five stars, but fuck it.

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  RRR 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 12 Nov 2022 10

  Previously I rated RRR too highly.

  I had watched it on Netflix.

  I just emerged from a sold out 700+ seat auditorium at The Music Box, where 700+ lunatics shouted and cheered and clapped in unison during "Naatu Naatu," and went apeshit during just about every other scene as well. I was one of those lunatics. This made RRR at least five or six times better, but Letterboxd doesn't have a 25- to 30-star rating system, a flaw inherent to…