All the signifiers of a great work but none of the actual necessary content. To be clear, I'd be a much happier woman if every movie tried this hard (and also looked this good) but I feel like in terms of psychosexual power struggle between two men, The Master did it all better, and in terms of tension between the artist and the patron... well, Phantom Thread did it better. Big PTA energy here even just at a cursory read,…
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Hereditary 2018
first 90 minutes of hereditary: i want to talk about mental illness, how people deal with grief, and how people deal with guilt
me: k what did you want to say about it
last 30 minutes of hereditary: lmao nothin get WREKT
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Jojo Rabbit 2019
Better writers than I have pinpointed what's so unfortunate about this at its core, but it is relentlessly glib. This is a movie that is so fucking childish that the symbol of freedom in this film is "dancing," as if a giant soul-crushing murderous machine that destroyed families, ended lives, and created untold depths of human suffering is equivalent to the mayor from fucking Footloose.
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