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  Erin Brockovich 2000

  Watched 11 Mar 2025

  phenomenal. immensely struck by the lived-in quality of the world, of every outfit, of every object shown in a home or office. erin is the perfect working class heroine and the film is so thoughtful about the impossibility of everything single moms are put through regularly just to survive while also not viewing her from a distance or letting the audience think she is someone to pity. the line where masry turns around her whole thing on her and asks that she not assume the lady lawyer is stupid just because she went to law school is exactly everything right here. fun! funny! and important! love

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  Mickey 17 2025

  Watched 10 Mar 2025

  feels like there’s a layer of static over the whole thing keeping me from accessing the truly good movie underneath but moments peaked through where I was able to say oh now THAT’S bong. I think the thing I missed the most from his other creature features and sci-fi work that’s absent here is the propulsion! snowpiercer zips, the host careens, even at okja’s worst pacing there’s a destination in mind (home!), but mickey suggests plotlines and potential endings as…

Popular reviews

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  Better Man 2024

  Watched 16 Jan 2025

  had to haul ass to get to this after they decided a “limited release” model was more appropriate and it’s a SHAME americans don’t want to have fun at the movies anymore with some guy they never met who is actually one of the biggest musicians of all time. about as good of a music biopic as you could hope to achieve

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  The Brutalist 2024

  Watched 03 Feb 2025

  In the most obvious gloss of all time yes the look and scope DID compel me and it IS in my top half of oscar contenders. All the discourse around how the film has been marketed rings true to me while I also feel that I can’t help but be persuaded it IS important for a film of this budget, runtime, and old-school feel to exist. Excited to dig into some criticism particularly around the Zionism stuff and see what I can find on the treatment of sexual violence here. If Maclin can’t get nominated I would not mind Pearce beating out Culkin for this