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  Transient 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 10 May 2024

  This was a glitchy, trippy sci-fi drama/thriller feature film in all the best ways! Incredible cinematography, vibes, and production design really grounded you in the story and the production did an excellent job of achieving a lot with very little resources--scaling the screenplay properly to tell an engaging story with just a few characters within a small amount of locations. Transient poses some interesting questions, too, exploring themes about the ethics of dwelling on memories and the lengths we go…

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  Marry My Dead Body 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Jan 2025

  Comedy is super subjective, and often rooted in culture and language—or so I have always thought. Marry My Dead Body was the first honest-to-God comedy movie I’ve watched in a foreign language and it’s quickly become a favorite! A familiar plot is set up: homophobic cop gets connected with gay partner to investigate major case; homophobe’s heart grows three sizes—but the big twist is the gay partner is dead and through a series of contrived coincidences, the homophobic cop has…

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  Wicked 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Nov 2024

  Don’t sleep on the Wicked Movie, y’all. It really is that good. 

  Wicked remains my favorite musical of all time, so I was inclined to like the movie no matter what—but I also know just how hard it is to make a movie musical work. So many musicals I love have bad movies. Wicked is not one of them.

  I didn’t know Cynthia Erivo’s work very well prior to this film—she’s excellent. I appreciated her layered performance of Elphaba: snarky,…

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  Office Space 1999

  ★★★ Watched 06 Apr 2023

  Watched Office Space for the first time ever tonight—it was really fun! Genuinely a funny comedy movie that definitely felt set in the 90s but not completely uncomfortably so. Great visual comedy and the comic beats in the script were pitch-perfect—the first ten minutes or so were a genuine masterclass in both visual comedy and laser-focused satirizing of cubicle hell. A very funny plot, witty satire, and pretty solid cinematography across the boards.

  Characterization was not great across the boards,…

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