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Gladiator II 2024
I had pretty low expectations and zero context going in so I was pleasantly surprised, the first 30 minutes are pretty cheesy and not very good but it sort of starts cooking after that and the middle of the movie is highly enjoyable and has some very fun, theatrical performances especially the two sibling emperors who are GIVING DOUBLE YOUNG JOAQUIN PHOENIX and an A Tier performance from Denzel Washington who carries this movie on HIS BACK. This is maybe…
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Jingle All the Way 1996
Don’t judge a book by its cover, former bodybuilder and future California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger truly cemented his status as an unlikely 90’s camp icon in this perfectly paced Meet The Parents meets Uncut Gems “thriller for kids”, with incredible supporting performances by Phil Hartman (RIP) and Sinbad, another perfect time capsule movie for a pre-Amazon, pre-e-commerce Christmas scenario. It’s high time for a remake (starring John Cena?)!!
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The Chef & The Daruma 2024
Tojo dreams of universal love and acceptance.
The Chef and The Daruma is a spiritual successor to Jiro Dreams of Sushi, every bit as delicate and masterfully done. Across the ocean in Vancouver is a sushi chef Jiro’s equivalent, but where Jiro is a symbol of preserving tradition, the pursuit of perfection and minimalism, Tojo symbolizes modernity, innovation, ingenuity, and integration. Like Jiro, The Chef and the Daruma is a gentle, contemplative, and understated documentary. They both are capstones to…
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You've Got Mail 1998
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Normies will say Sleepless in Seattle is the best Tom Hanks / Meg Ryan romcom, but it’s You’ve Got Mail — the most important movie ever made about the internet. It’s also a perfect time capsule of 90’s corporate bland blah homogenization of cityscapes, as well as a rare Dave Chapelle film performance as the “black friend”, another classic 90s trope. No film challenges our fraught relationship to capitalism, corporate greed, and corporatism more than You’ve Got Mail, a testament to the screenplay and incredible performances of our two leads that just like Meg Ryan, we were hoping it would have been Joe Fox all along.
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