pickledplum

pickledplum

Favorite films

  • The Worst Person in the World
  • The Piano Teacher
  • Challengers
  • Eyes Wide Shut

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • Babygirl

    ★½

  • Blue Velvet

    ★★★½

  • Wicked

    ★★

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  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★½

    Anora…Anora…Anora…

    But she prefers Annie! The lazily written scene of goon #3 googling the meaning of her name sort of sums up the uncaring treatment of her character. All we know about this woman is that she’s a stripper from new yawk but by the end of the film she turns into a battered stripper from new yawk. Can we count that as character development? Voyeuristic was the first word that came to my mind as I was leaving the…

  • The Penguin

    The Penguin

    ½

    this is definitely a show. i feel like im missing something as every review of this is glowing. it just lacked heart and inspiration and any grit that didn’t feel like very plastic set design. i like the new batman too so this was a surprise. the crime felt goofy, the gangsters lacked that olive garden gaudiness, and despite the lovely cast, the whole eight episodes rang hollow. it lacked the goonish charm of goodfellas, the hilarity and character work…

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  • Manchester by the Sea

    Manchester by the Sea

    ½

    WHITE PEOPLE BEING BAD AT COMMUNICATING FOR TWO HOURS. ACTUAL TORTURE.

  • Cats

    Cats

    ½

    Watched it when I was zooted and oh my god I swear I couldn’t grasp a single word in English for the first ten minutes. Then I hyper-focused on how bizarre the fur looks on the back of the cat heads, like, draping a cats pelt over a human skeleton is just perverse.

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