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Recent reviews

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  The Substance 2024

  Watched 22 Sep 2024 1

  you will laugh barf and shit.

  wettest movie of the year.

  (also, jesusfuckingchrist just end the fucking movie 15 minutes earlier)

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  Seeking Mavis Beacon 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 07 Sep 2024

  A beautiful coming of age story.

  
  Some quick notes if you just watched it.
  I was lucky enough to see a screening with a Q&A with Jazmin Jones and Olivia Ross, and I wanted to highlight a few things they mentioned:

  Firstly, Jones talked about how early in the process the movie wanted to be made. The world aligned to secure funding, the work space, and collaborators coming together, but as they neared finding Renée L’Esperance, you can see the…

Popular reviews

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  Lava 2014

  ½ Watched 31 Aug 2020

  An abomination.

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  Blink Twice 2024

  Rewatched 27 Aug 2024

  For such a brutal movie, it ends up being surprising toothless.

  The critique of the rich is reserved for the island-owning ultra-wealthy (notably excluding the nepo-baby director). And the critique of rapists is reserved for the cartoonish rape-for-sport villains (when a vast majority of victims are assaulted by people they know personally.) The deep statement it seems to make is “bad people are bad,” but adds little to a larger cultural discussion around these topics.

  At a time when Hollywood…