Joshua Kleiman

Joshua Kleiman

Favorite films

  • Xanadu
  • The Muppet Movie
  • Pleasantville
  • Problemista

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  • Promising Young Woman

    ★★★★★

  • Return to Oz

    ★★★★½

  • Over the Hedge

    ★★★★★

  • Save Yourselves!

    ★★★★

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  • Promising Young Woman

    Promising Young Woman

    ★★★★★

    So incredibly well-written. It’s a really beautiful, really awful story.

  • Return to Oz

    Return to Oz

    ★★★★½

    This movie fucking rocks 🪨 
    That’s a bit of a funny joke, cus you see, the main antagonist of this movie is a rock man. Hahaha!

    There’s something a bit unsettling about the combination of a newly darkened tone/color pallet and the notably younger Dorothy Gale (she is a child) that makes the stakes feel strangely high throughout the movie. I was genuinely on the edge of my seat for much of the runtime. I wanted my little homie to make it through! 

    The practical FX and the sets that they used to make this are pretty sick; it’s so beautifully 80s. 

    Gonna go listen to Sufjan Stevens.

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  • Dashing Home for Christmas

    Dashing Home for Christmas

    ★★

    “It’s been an adventure.”
    “Yeah. It really has been.” 
    -this movie 

    Both of these stars come from the enjoyment this movie brought me, neither from the quality of the movie itself. I missed the first half hour, so I wasn’t aware that one of the protagonists, Esther, works as a management consultant. When this came up as a late-stage conflict deep into the third act, I was confused. However, this confusion made it REALLY funny when Simon, the other main…

  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    ★★★★★

    warning: there will be spoilers

    On October 5th, 2005, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit was released in movie theaters across America. I was three years old. I went to see the movie with my family, but soon the ominous score and carefully molded, creepy clay proved too much for me to handle, and I left the theater crying. 

    Tonight, I watched the new Wallace and Gromit adventure, Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, for the first time.…

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