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  The Mother 2023

  ★½ Watched 03 Mar 2025

  Perusing Letterboxd, there were a couple German reviews also rating this dreck one and a half stars. Despite their harsh criticism being transmitted in a language not of my speaking, reading through their foreign diatribe, I still somehow got the gist. It seems, when utter crap is involved, hating tends to transcend the language barrier

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  Trap 2024

  ★★ Watched 24 Feb 2025

  There was one particularly dreadful summer a couple years ago where those horrible alcoholic seltzers had become ubiquitous overnight. Even more disconcerting, several of my friends took up this ridiculous drink and had it at every social gathering that I attended. My curiosity eventually got the better of me, and one day I decided to forgo my old friend John Jameson and cracked a White Claw open and had a sip. As a fan of both regular, non alcoholic, and…

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  Johnson Family Christmas Dinner 2008

  ½ Added

  Interesting to watch this as an atheist, because now I’m not sure that I believe in movies either

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  Hook 1991

  ★½ Watched 04 Jul 2023 1

  HOOK flies by the grace of the killer conceit of asking what would happen if Peter Pan grew up, but plummets to the ground under the slow realization that at some point our main character is going to have to start eventually acting like an annoying kid. Perhaps adult Peter is a bit too stuffy, solemn, and inattentive of his children, but I did find myself agreeing with his admittedly too aggressive "Shut up!" when his son kept interrupting his…

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