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A Real Pain 2024
I relate to David more than I care to admit. Well-written and performed quite nicely, but I’m not buying that everyone keeps approaching Benji to say “turns out you were right when you were being a total prick earlier!!”
Shares a lot of DNA with A Different Man, which I thought captured the fantasy of Benji with more self-awareness
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Better Man 2024
Sue me but this is highly entertaining and unfairly maligned. Breathes life into a very tired genre by refusing to redeem its subject (or even make him likable) for basically the entire runtime. I’m not interested in famous/influential individuals giving rose-tinted recollections of their past, I only want to see a mocap performance of a monkey man being honest about how miserable of a person he is
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Cats 2019
-Jennifer Hudson cat has snot running out of her nose and INTO HER MOUTH for 80% of her screen time. This is not an exaggeration
-Seeing a close-up of Jason Derulo cat pouring champagne into the mouth of James Corden cat was one of the most horrifying things I’ve witnessed to date
-We definitely got the pre-CGI revision edit in our theater because this looked like a bad PlayStation 2 game from 2003. Judi Dench cat and pretty much every…
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