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mpalm19

Favorite films

  • A Few Good Men
  • The Social Network
  • Lady Bird

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  • Black Bag

    ★★½

  • Lady Bird

    ★★★★★

  • The French Dispatch

    ★★★★

  • Jurassic World Dominion

    ★★

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★½

    The type of movie you watch little pieces of when it comes on TV. Sincerely wanted it to be the wife, or better yet, HIM. Docked 1/2 a star for 1/2 of the Black people being the bad guys.

  • Lady Bird

    Lady Bird

    ★★★★★

    Still perfect. The America magazine article where the author says the movie “shows Catholic girls school as [she] remember[s] it - brimming with kindness, weirdness, friendship, and rebellion” nailed it.

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  • American Fiction

    American Fiction

    ★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Poor Things

    Poor Things

    ★★½

    Men see a naïve woman and are immediately like “oh my gosh, how can we sexually exploit her!” 

    This movie has the fault of having more to see than it does to say. The use of black & white, peephole lenses, and set and costume design all demonstrate the craft that went into the film but even the (very good) performances cannot save Poor Things for what it lacks as a story. The overarching themes- of sexual exploitation, of use and…