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  Cloud 2024

  ★★½ Watched 26 Mar 2025 1

  Compelling ideas and very handsome to look at, but Cloud is a slooooooooooow burn on a subject in which I have very little investment: online reselling. We spend forever watching the ins and outs of this dull world, constantly waiting for a deeper meaning to present itself, and it never does. There is something to be said about online disconnect and the hustle culture that births this kind of parasites, but these ideas are frustratingly unexplored despite how much screen…

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  Thief 1981

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  52-Week Movie Challenge, week 12: heist movie.

  There's a moment about halfway into Thief that breaks my heart. Frank is viewing a house for himself and his new wife, Jessie. In a small voice, he asks her, "Is it good?" She looks out to the yard and says it's perfect before looking back at Frank. He has a distant, blank look, prompting her to ask what's wrong. His face comes back together, and he lies, telling her there's nothing to…

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  Humane 2024

  ★★★ Watched 19 Apr 2024

  Another entry in the "Let the rich eat each other" cinematic universe. This one feels a bit heavy-handed and cluttered: a lot of the beats are recycled from movies like Knives Out and Bodies Bodies Bodies, and the sheer amount of social issues it attempts to satire sags things down. Ultimately, however, I think it pulls it off by committing to the cynicism a the heart of the script, especially towards the end.

  Jay Baruchel and Enrico Colantoni are so…

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  Strange Darling 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Aug 2024

  Gender norms, kink, consent and weaponized victimhood are JT Mollner's playground in this twisty-turny thriller, the uncomfortable edges of each providing the overall shape of a pulse-pounding descent into mayhem. Is his male voice the best to be playing with some of these concepts? I'm not entirely sure, and some of the character moments feel a bit questionable as such.

  That ambiguity is where Strange Darling thrives, however, as layers are peeled off of everyone's presumed innocence and a game…