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  The Iron Claw 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 30 Dec 2023

  Millions of words have been written about how great Efron is in this movie but I want to take a second to say Maura Tierney rules and had such amazing facial acting in this movie. The way that she could convey emotion by pursing her lips, just so good. She really conveyed how little control Doris felt she had over her family even as it was falling apart around her.

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  Girl Walk // All Day 2011

  ★★★★ Added

  Girl Talk’s music has always held a place in my heart for being able to take the ADD way that most people, myself included, listened to music as the digital age really kicked off and weave it into a cohesive, overflowing whole filled with bits and pieces of everything from the music my parents love to the newest and hottest things out there (circa 2010, anyways). It’s perfect party music and Girl Walk makes it feel like a party, thrown…

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  Lady Bird 2017

  ★★★★ Added

  holy shit there were so many moments where i recognized myself or people I knew in these character. I was the only one in the theater laughing when Timotheè Chalamet was reading Zinn, or during the scene with the theater kid activities.

  Lukas Hedges practically stole the show out from under Ronan and Metcalf though, he was just so painfully honest in a way that only 17 year olds are really capable of, which is tremendous. Also the way the movie obviously loves Sacramento is great, I feel the same way about my hometown, even when I'm not living there.

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  Gilda Live 1980

  ★★★½ Added

  Like an episode of Saturday Night Live mixed with a show that a 12 year old puts on in her backyard that is obviously only as good as the talent behind it, and so god bless Gilda Radner, who has enough energy to power the entire theater ten times over. I'm sure it loses something not being in the audience yourself, and it occasionally feels like a Gilda's Greatest Hits record, but the characters are tried and true and unlike…