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  Breaking 2022

  Watched 21 Jan 2022

  Sundance 2022

  The reveal of how much is at stake hurt more than anything I’ve seen on film this year. Tragedy masquerading as thriller.

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  Jugaad 2017

  Watched 05 May 2021

  I thought I’d leave a review here since it’s the first time I’ve watched something that had so little presence on Letterboxd.

  Jugaad, on its face, titles itself after and focuses on the special innovative prowess of India’s poorest citizens, following a variety of lower and lower-middle class interviewees in Bombay — a transgender holy woman, an ex-mafioso, a cab decal designer, a gossip blogger, a fisherman, a young actor-in-waiting, and so on. These stories are tied together thematically through…

Popular reviews

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  A Monster Calls 2016

  Watched 31 Jan 2021

  This movie has everything. A British kid getting bullied. An unusual and compelling animation style. A MILF. A church getting fuckin destroyed over and over. A GMILF (Evil Queen). An explanation of the natural logarithm. Another GMILF (Sigourney Weaver). And to tie it all together, Liam Treeson teaching that British kid how to focus his rage into a white-hot knife. What else is there?

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  The Rules of the Game 1939

  ★½ Added

  Completely unfunny and fails as a comedy and tragedy both. Its intended role as a satire of aristocracy at the eve of World War II feels inarticulate and sort of obvious? And very little of the dialogue matters. I can see why on its initial release it was cut from 110 minutes to 88. I wouldn't have stopped there.

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