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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 08 Mar 2025 1

  It's fine! Acting is fun, but makes Bong JH's SNOWPIERCER or THE HOST feel more typical of his work than PARASITE. Putting aside a slightly mutilated feel to the story (why the pigeon outfit?), the script's almost pedagogical in places, where it just stops to tell you what to think. Then again, as the Average American Voter (for example) is a Big Fucking Dummy, maybe a pedagogical film that's explicitly against worker exploitation, colonialism, and technocapitalistfascism (Ruffalo is a combo…

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  No Other Land 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  packed house at BAM.

  Imagining the dismay of the filmmakers when on Oct 2023, and wondering if they suspected that Israel's monstrous and still ongoing retaliation -- their wanton slaughter of noncombatants, their deliberate headshots against children, their deliberate destruction of all health and education infrastructure -- would turn the decent world against Israel in mere months.

  That fucker in the white shirt who's so gleeful about putting his fellow Israeli Jew on blast on facebook little suspecting that he'd have his dumb fucking face on display in an Oscar winner. Eat shit fatso.

Popular reviews

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  The Last of the Sea Women 2024

  ★½ Watched 08 Oct 2024

  The footage and the interviews with the sea women: great! Invaluable.

  The Fukushima material? Very poorly integrated. Ends up feeling like protest as pure posture.

  The story of why women do this job and not men? Even now? Barely explained.

  The absence of *any* reference to the 1948 Jeju Uprising? Bizarre and cheap.

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★ Watched 29 Dec 2024 5

  Honestly the most unpleasant thing I've seen in threaters this year. I had a great time at The Northman. I bow to no one in my love of The Lighthouse. I have heard The VVitch is very good. I'm inclined to like this Eggers.

  But the dialogue, whew! Does not have that magic! It's like a fan fiction version of the 1830s.

  I did not feel that we falling through to some other side of existence, not like I have…