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  Mickey 17 2025

  Watched 09 Mar 2025

  As with many of Bong's films there's a level of precision and delightful silliness here that makes for a tasty treat of a movie. There's also something so candied about it that it doesn't necessarily draw me deeper — he likes to leave things very spelled out so that no one can be confused about the message, and I wonder if maybe this quality slightly blunts the impact for me. I love what robert pattinson is doing here tho, and…

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  The Miracle Club 2023

  Watched 05 Mar 2025

  Some fun with this wonderful cast and I was into some of the stylings and wardrobe. The stuff with the husbands back home is a bit inane and feels like they were looking for a way to fill out the run time a bit—or they had an in with Stephen Rea and wanted to give him something to do. Funny to see him and Hazel Doupe as father-daughter, when she just played his real life sister-in-law on Say Nothing... anyways,…

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  The Donut King 2020

  Watched 23 May 2020 3

  Really lovely film, one of my favorite articles is about Ted Ngoy and it's been permanently on my bookmarks bar since 2014 I reread it every couple years. In once sense it's an american dream story, the rise and fall of a capitalist, but there's also a story there about defeating corporations (dunkin donuts, get out of california and rot in hell plz, ty) and there's something that feels anti-capitalist about helping fellow cambodians take over all the donut shops…

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  Barbie 2023

  Watched 20 Jul 2023

  Production design on another level, Gerwig executing at such a high level with a totally different kind of movie/production than she’s done before — I feel like White Noise may have been a sort of warm up for her and Baumbach both in the writing and stylings… they both went totally heightened (tho, in different ways with each their own flair) and despite their previous work being mostly realist and fairly grounded they both excelled…

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