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Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  We wanted to love this. We went in hot. We got an extra popcorn. We even brought Grandad to his first movie since "Boys in the Boat." But all was for naught. As a big fan of Bong’s previous movies, it pains me to share that there’s little in Mickey 17 that’s worthy of your time, attention, or money. Where "Snowpiercer" and "Parasite" were tightly controlled, taut, and sincere with compelling characters, "Mickey 17" is loose, meandering, and tonally uneven…

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★ Rewatched 26 Jan 2025

  I wanted to like this more than I did. The architecture and panoramic shots of Italy live up to the hype but the rest of the film — it will certainly not like being called a "movie" — does not.

  The best move you can make is to leave at intermission; you won't know where the story's going and it’s better not to stick around to find out. The drug addiction and stilted sex stuff is odd and the whole rape subplot…

Popular reviews

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  Love Lies Bleeding 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Nov 2024

  Dare to dream. When you hear there's a new lesbian body building movie with graphic sex, workouts, and violence with a title that references the twisted genius opening song on Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," your hopes will rightfully be sky-high, but when you learn it features KStew, the expectations go stratospheric. I've got great news: This movie succeeds in every way and surpasses all expectations. If you haven't seen it, I'm jealous; if you have seen it, congratulations, you now possess a shield to repel life's steady drip of sorrow and disappointment.

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Nov 2024

  This movie stands out for its sublime depictions of the workaday lives of sex workers and Mikey Madison's fight scenes, which are as good as anything in the super badass Rocky 3.

  It'll be odd if this wins awards because the doofus baddies have too much screen time and drag this otherwise fantastic movie down.

  Parents, teach your daughters to fight like Mikey. Seriously. Book the damn lessons now. Really. Either before or after you see this very good film.