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  Emilia Pérez 2024

  ★★★½ Rewatched 24 Jan 2025

  The hate campaign on this movie is probably the most baffling thing to come out of film discourse in recent years. Bad faith criticism after bad faith criticism. The hate does nothing but patronize and disrespect what the film is actually doing as well as Karla Sofía Gascón’s own experience and the trans people who do resonate with this film. The movie portrays a very flawed person going through transition thinking it will mitigate all the damage she has done…

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Nov 2024

  In the bathroom after the movie, someone felt the need to loudly declare “this movie sucked.” No one responded and he left without washing his hands.

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  Babylon 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Dec 2022

  “Do you miss the silence?”

  If Whiplash and La La Land told the story of the road to success with the inevitable harsh reality of these dreams hitting them at the end, Babylon is just a 3 hour showcase of this reality. 

  Babylon has been my most anticipated film for so long now. La La Land is my favorite film of all time with Whiplash following up behind pretty close, Babylon did not disappoint at all. The ideal way to…

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  Maestro 2023

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 13 Jan 2024

  Okay I gave this another go and I honestly liked it way more than on my first watch. When you look at this film as an examination on the marriage between Lenny and Felicia rather than a look at Bernstein’s life as a whole it’s much better. Ultimately making this movie about the marriage was a much more creative decision than making it about Bernstein’s career. 

  A lot of people say it’s an average biopic, to which I have to…

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