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Recent reviews

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  Beau Is Afraid 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Apr 2023

  Freud’s favorite film of the 2000s so far. Yes even more so than A Dangerous Method

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  Blonde 2022

  ★★ Watched 01 Oct 2022

  I rarely feel compelled to write reviews; however, Blonde is easily the most frustrating film I've seen this year and I felt compelled to share my thoughts.

  Everything that you've heard about the movie is true: it's misogynistic, hypocritical, and a reductive look at what I assume to be complex life. My primary issue with the film however is not something I have yet seen discussed. This film, alongside Baz Luhrmann's Elvis, commit the cardinal sin of screenwriting. Both Marilyn…

Popular reviews

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  Ready Player One 2018

  ★ Watched 29 Mar 2018

  Not only did I hate this film, but I now hate every film referenced in the film, most of which I used to love. Thanks Spielberg.

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  Marie Antoinette 2006

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Jan 2018

  Looking back on reviews for this film from the time it was released, it is laughable how badly the vast majority of critics (even those who supported the film) missed the point of it (which isn’t especially subtle).  Critics of the time noted the parallels between Marie and American contemporaries and commented on the modern pop soundtrack, and yet they never entertained the notion that the movie could have been commenting on contemporary gender politics?

  The movie is largely about…

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