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Recent reviews

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  Tarot 2024

  Watched 02 Jun 2024

  Zzzzzzzzz

  That’s me watching this one, maybe a snicker or two throughout but just another cheap horror throwaway.

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  The First Omen 2024

  Watched 01 Jun 2024

  Unfortunately didn’t meet the hype for me. Not bad, but just felt like every other nun-adjacent horror flick for me. Nothing new to hit for me.

  Also wild that this came so soon after Immaculate?

Popular reviews

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  Mustang 2015

  Watched 28 Apr 2024

  Mustang is another example of a raw and powerful portrayal of the way in which many young women are unfairly stripped of their rights to personal freedom even in today’s times, while simultaneously reminding you of how equally powerful and beautiful young womanhood and unity among young women can be in the face of this oppression. 

  I’m not sure that this is an exposé of Turkish culture as a whole per se, but rather an example of very real conservative communities…

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  Parachute 2023

  Watched 22 Apr 2024

  For every dozen movies we get these days about young adults that navigate romance and social pressure and mental health in the most surface level, cheesy, basic, uncurious ways, you get one that has a definitive soul and genuine love to share for its characters, and I place Parachute in the latter category 100% of the time.

  Young adulthood is tough to portray, many veer too far into the “young” and talk down to its audience and protagonists as children,…

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