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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  1 smol spoiler in the last sentence of this entry.

  I enjoyed Mickey 17! It was not DEEP, maybe even like, tidepool shallow where there are spiny things inside that prick your feet and that is the message of the movie that is so unsubtle it makes you bleed, but it was fun, and laugh-out-loud funny at parts, and generally endearing.

  I do honestly wish that this had come out last year as planned. I would have enjoyed Mark Ruffalo's…

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  Wicked 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  I have never seen the Broadway show nor listened to it nor read the book. But I thought this was very good. I could be wrong though.

Popular reviews

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  Pather Panchali 1955

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2024

  March Around the World 2024: 11/30 (India)

  I will try to format this into a coherent review later but WOW

  To be honest, I was beginning to wonder if I lacked the ability to appreciate and/or enjoy (not always the same, as y'all know) older films. Pather Panchali is visually stunning and has such a depth of feeling that I have no business being this engaged with?? Sibling bonding (I'm an only child), the anxiety of poverty, extreme loss, uprooting…

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  Supa Modo 2018

  ★★★ Watched 05 Mar 2024

  March Around the World 2024: 4/30 (Kenya)

  Different vibe and not at all the same, but this gave me Lars and the Real Girl feels. Supa Modo beats the cynics with an over-the-top, comically heartwarming display of community. It's cute, and very much what it says on the tin.

  While not unobjectionable, I didn't find very much remarkable about this, either. I know that there is an audience for films like this. Relatively shallow, vaguely uplifting, and somehow isn't bogged down by its sad subject matter. It's definitely a nice film, but that's about it.

  The very last shot made me cry tho.