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  Beau Is Afraid 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Apr 2023 1

  Did you ever hear the one about the boy who feared his mother? “Beau Is Afraid” tells this joke for three gobsmacking, sometimes exhausting, always beguiling hours. At the center is a fascinating performance from Joaquin Phoenix, who actualizes what it looks like for a boy to suddenly stop growing up and merely age into a graying body. Phoenix makes his mouth tiny as if he were still suckling, and his voice intensely frail. His eyes, often used to signal…

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  See How They Run 2022

  ★ Watched 22 Dec 2022

  Dreadful attempt to bait anglophiles and people who made Knives Out a Netflix franchise; great example of how using quirky blocking and camera moves can suck out any sense of identity. The movie falls into the trap that KO specifically avoided, of making a period comedy that looks like a Wes Anderson-ass modern thing. It’s so obvious how much they wanted this thing to look like other things. And the casting is all wrong, stating with making Sam Rockwell have an accent. David Oyelowo is great in everything else but he can’t even sell falling over a couch here

Popular reviews

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  Dune 2021

  ★★½ Watched 18 Oct 2021

  A 155-minute concept trailer to make DUNE PART TWO. Didn’t feel a thing, explosion scene was cool tho

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  I Love My Dad 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 21 May 2022

  Worthy successor to WORLD’S GREATEST DAD. See it with a large and constantly uncomfortable audience, as I did