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Recent reviews

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  Zoolander 2001

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025 1

  Alexander Skarsgård's character being named Meekus is low-key a top five funny aspect of this movie. Somehow have never seen this one outside of clips taken out of context due to just how much it's taken a hold of the zeitgeist, but I'm finding myself becoming more and more of a RETVRN guy for broad, midbudget studio comedies that actually had this many solid gags-per-minutes filled with God-level cameos. (The Billy Zane one LMAO.)

  Seen at least a hundred movies at the Aero now, but the Trump appearance here probably got the loudest boos I've ever heard at a screening.

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  The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970

  ★★★★ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  "I saw one of your paintings. I liked it."

  "What was it?"

  "Oh... It was one about a murderer killing a girl."

  "Bah... I don't do that crap anymore. I'm going through a mystical period. I only paint mystical scenes."

  "Why?"

  "Why? Because I feel mystical!"

Popular reviews

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  Talk to Me 2022

  ★ Watched 26 Jul 2023

  zzzzz to me.

  Dreadfully tedious and makes that 95 minute runtime feel twice the length. Probably one of the more thematically incoherent scripts I've seen in one of these in a while. Pretty unsurprisingly, this wants to be the usual A24-branded grief wankfest that are a dime-a-dozen at this point with all these guys just endlessly riffing on The Babadook and Hereditary while completely missing any of the familial strife and tension that made either of those effective. The central…

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  Civil War 2024

  ★ Watched 08 Apr 2024 7

  Picturing Alex Garland watching Nightcrawler and just thinking to himself, "Wow, this is very cool and based, actually."

  Felt as empty and vacuous as this movie was walking out of it. An apolitical statement on an explicitly political topic; speculative fiction, with no speculation to speak of. How does a scenario like this even happen? (California and Texas forming an alliance of secession against the Federal Government? Highways being filled with empty cars? MAGA-coded guys operating Texas Chainsaw-style torture facilities?)…