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  Bring It On 2000

  ★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  My favourite part was the Bob Fosse caricature being a menace.
  My least favourite part was Eliza Dushku's plotline amounting to: Don't worry if everyone thinks you're gay, you can learn to pass as straight and then your friends will accept you.
  I had to keep repeating to myself "It was progressive for 2000, it was progressive for 2000"
  But the conclusion of the film was: With only 3 weeks of practice, this posh, predominantly white cheerleading troupe are almost as good as the inner-city group who have been practising all year.

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  Dumb Money 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  It wants to be The Big Short meets The Social Network.
  It's about as good as the former and nowhere close to the latter.
  Good cast, some good ideas but not enough and crucially the comedy doesn't land.

Popular reviews

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  The Incredibles 2004

  ½ Added 1

  I can't be objective about this film.
  It was the first time I remember being disgusted by the message of a peice of media.
  At 12 I had no idea who Ayn Rand was or anything about objectivism, but I knew what the villain was fighting for was a more equal society than what our elitist heroes wanted and the film was trying it's hardest to bias the audience.
  It was the first tine I recognised a piece of propaganda without being it being pointed out.
  Also it's about half an hour too long.

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  Bo Burnham: Inside 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 30 May 2021

  Trying to figure out why this didn't click for me like others.
  I think part of it is that I always interpret Bo's performances as inherently insincere, which works so well in his early shows when he's being an edgy asshole & satirising celebrity culture and has been utilised to great effect in his acting rolls.
  But here, when he is trying to be serious, I still feel that ironic detachment & keep waiting for a punchline to deflate this pretence.
  I…