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  Welcome to the Dollhouse 1995

  ★★★★½ Added

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★½ Added

  Visually striking and ripe with atmosphere. In all of his works, Eggers is great at establishing dread: he’s able to conjure it from seemingly innocuous shots, like trees undulating in the breeze. No surprise, then, that he weaves gothic gold out of this material. Shadows play on white sheets rustling in the night; castles are enshrouded by dense fog; sepulchral interiors are lit sparsely by candle, with deep pockets of darkness still occupying the frame. It’s beautiful and creepy as…

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  Sorry to Bother You 2018

  ★★★★ Added

  Boots Riley's debut is a wildly inventive satire that attacks almost every aspect of society: the intrusiveness of corporatism in our intimate moments and even our entire lives, the cringe-worthy attempts of upper-level executives to connect with their subordinates, the need to be "ideally white" to climb the corporate ladder, the mindless nature of popular entertainment (esp. viral videos), the tendency of leftists to adopt avant-garde techniques which ultimately harms themselves, and the radical left's habit of giving up their…

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  Despicable Me 3 2017

  ½ Added

  I actually wrote this a year ago right after viewing it with my family. It was late at night and I was angry, so the review is not so much a critique as it is an unpolished rambling. After having to view the movie again fairly recently, however, I've decided to copy and paste my original thoughts here without any process of editing: I've wasted enough time with this colossal embarrassment already. Without further ado, here goes:

  Have the horns…

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