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  Queer 2024

  ★★ Watched 16 Dec 2024

  this one dragged its ass on but I'm glad daniel had fun

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Dec 2024

  or popestars: the rivals

  i promise you there's never been a kiki as messy as this

Popular reviews

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  Phantom Thread 2017

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 04 Feb 2018

  All of Paul Thomas Anderson's men are given gifts beyond the ability of their egos to contain. They're as fragile as they are powerful; technically skilled, but cruel and manipulative. Crucially they’re all given a fatal antagonist- a rising usurper or direct negative. Reynolds Woodcock is as another of these supernaturally persuasive figures with clever Alma in the adversarial.

  As in The Master, PTA's ultimate Oedipal expression, we're invited to probe how events are ordered in relation to the magnetism of a singular male…