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  Bonus Track 2023

  Watched 18 Sep 2024

  What i love about coming of age movies is how large NOW looms. The present feels like everything. It is everything. There’s no time to think about how now will turn into then. And I think this movie was the perfect embodiment of that 😊. Who cares about school and grades and careers. I want to be heard, loved, to be important. Now. Never mind that none of this won’t really matter 10 years from now. As an ever anxious…

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  Longlegs 2024

  Watched 12 Jul 2024

  Definitely delivers on the creepiness and suspense. I was actively stressing out for a lot of this movie. I also liked the dynamic bw harker and her mom. But other than that the characters and the premise kind of felt flimsy to me. Probably not a movie I’d come back to.

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  American Assassin 2017

  ★½ Watched 30 Apr 2021

  Men will literally join the CIA instead of going to therapy...

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  Monkey Man 2024

  Watched 05 Apr 2024

  This whips so hard. An anti hindu nationalist revenge banger with some gorgeous set pieces. It’s a story of a hero emerging out of the wreckage left behind by a legacy of land theft and exploitation to strike at the heart of Hindu nationalist imagination. I love the reclamation of hinduism and Indian mythology.  The training scene with the tabla player was awesome and there were some amazing kill shots. I think there’s a feminist critique to be made about…

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