if we listen to this man another minute we shall have no convictions left
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Quiz Show 1994
I loved this movie when I was sixteen years old, reading The New Yorker and aspiring to be on Jeopardy! — an ideal target, as you can well imagine the kind of nascent middlebrow sensibilities it both represented and conjured up. Glad to say that the long-delayed revisit was rewarding and free from cringe — this is a really sturdy film and if it rarely strays from a kind of formal utilitarianism, it's pretty remarkable in that regard. Good exhibit…
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Wicked 2024
laughable attempts at subtext become inoffensive once you realize it is a movie for small children. songs are bad, which is not great for a musical, otherwise it’s a generic Disneyland ride. horrendipidous only in all the usual ways and thus somewhat gently surprising.
cannot believe “Shiz” made it out of the draft phase
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Oppenheimer 2023
Betting the house against Christopher Nolan remains a sure thing. Script is written by ChatGPT after scanning the Wiki page. (At one point, noted genius J. Robert Oppenheimer attributes “property is theft” to Marx, which is particularly funny because it’s the most famous line by one of his intellectual rivals, in combative response to which he wrote an entire book. Not a big deal, but anyway, just to file under: dumb person’s ideas of a smart movie).
Unable to think…
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The Favourite 2018
feed at the trough of arbitrary directorial impositions and witless “provocations.” who will save us from the interminable boredom of “style”
take a shot every time they say cunt and at least maybe by the end you’ll be dead
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