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Hard Truths 2024
What are our words for? What can we hope to accomplish with them? We think speaking might offer some relief from our torment, if that doesn’t work, next we’ll try screaming. Nope, made things worse, let’s try silence now, maybe that can stop the bleeding, or at least not invite further injury. Even this becomes too much eventually, thank god we have eating and sleeping to help break things up or else this whole thing would be unbearable. But if…
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Asteroid City 2023
There’s a moment in the middle where it seems like Anderson is about to finally realize his whole asthetic is a prison and that for years he has just been shuffling A-listers around the frame like deck chairs on the Titanic. That the intentionally empty line-reads and gently-tossed jokes won’t actually protect him from criticism and he needs to start taking chances and actually risk failure to do something great. But then instead Jeff Goldblum shows up and it all goes about how you’d expect.
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Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees 2024
The antithesis of most stand-up specials. Rather than cultivating a false sense of spontaneity, intimacy, and candor, every aspect feels conceived, written, and delivered very precisely. The pretensions allow it to exceed any regular mismash of jokes/anecdotes, while the subject matter works to sheepishly deflect its otherwise half-naked ambitions.
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