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Longlegs 2024
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Fuck yeah. The key to this movie, if you've been dissatisfied with it, lies in that intentionally-buried Kiernan Shipka cameo. It's a direct reference to Shipka's character in Perkins' debut, BLACKCOAT'S DAUGHTER. This isn't a throw-away; Perkins is trying to explicitly deepen the drama of movies like SILENCE OF THE LAMBS by emphasizing and reconfiguring the "devil" figure in those narratives––reconfiguring it in the same way the Satanic feminism of his earlier movie(s) did. Lee Harker isn't an FBI agent;…
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Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009
sadly, this is the rewatch that cracked it for me. a sad story about a frustrating man who refuses to take others seriously, including himself. the only bit that i'm really savoring today is the Pom-Poko-esque conclusion: how does the world of Roald Dahl survive under studio systems and the mall-ification of existence? By going underground.
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022
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i think you're all crazy, and this not just a good, but a great movie, and if the prestiging of horror had not rotted critics' brains everyone would recognize that. I was planning on giving this 3 1/2 stars for the first hour (for me, that means "mediocre, with flashes of beauty/brilliance). and then i realized, right when it became clear precisely how they were using sally, which is simply inspired, that the enjoyment I'd been getting thus far was…
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All That Heaven Allows 1955
Feeling a massive sense of superiority over all the '50s housewives who watched this movie because unlike them I actually have a chance with rock hudson
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