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  Snow White 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Rachel Zegler’s ethereal charisma as the original Disney Princess anchors this reimagining, which is one of the studio’s better live action takes on an animated classic.
  Even so, the story and themes have been refreshingly updated as the whole affair is planted in lush, visual beauty.
  I found Andrew Burnap’s turn as The Character FKA The Prince particularly dashing. But Gal Gadot’s Evil Queen is one of the only rotten apples in this film’s bunch. Her couple musical numbers are…

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  I wish I knew what I would’ve thought seeing this theatrically, pre-Oscars with everyone else. But having watched a couple weeks after it became The Academy’s Best Picture, it’s just perfectly fine… Save for Mikey Madison’s great, fiery, guttural performance.

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  Ice Princess 2005

  ★★★ Rewatched 26 Feb 2025

  “What is so horrible about that?… About feeling strong, and graceful, and beautiful for once in my life?”

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  Joker: Folie à Deux 2024

  ★½ Watched 09 Oct 2024

  An absolute atrocity. Not even the shell of a movie, but rather the shell of an idea that was cold and raw.
  As an ardent hater of the first, my expectations were in the basement. But somehow the reality of Folie à Deux is even worse than I ever could have imagined.
  Todd Phillips has turned in a total slog of a film that crawls around, confined only within the walls of Arkham State Hospital and a courtroom, utterly devoid…

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