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  • Saving Mr. Banks
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  • Babygirl

    ★★★½

  • Queer

    ★★★

  • Wicked

    ★★★★★

  • Saturday Night

    ★★★★

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  • Babygirl

    Babygirl

    ★★★½

    Babygirl is about the perhaps inevitable unfulfillment felt in chasing the aspirational life we think we are supposed to have. 

    It’s about relational power dynamics and how they can vary with the same person in a variety of contexts, from corporate America, to sex, to our family lives. We see the intense immediate gratification and liberation that can come from intentional power exchange, and the quite uncomfortable truth that concepts like consent and ethical boundaries can for some reduce this thrill…

  • Wicked

    Wicked

    ★★★★★

    Incredible.

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  • Joker: Folie à Deux

    Joker: Folie à Deux

    ★★★

    The original authentically portrayed how the psychological downfall of a man, failed by the system, could realistically become someone as seemingly cartoonish as “the joker.”

    While this deep and dark meaning did not feel quite as present the second time, I will push back on anyone criticizing the film for being a musical. Folie à deux is a French phrase meaning “shared psychosis,” a diagnosis once used clinically. Gaga’s Harley Quinn and Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck share some delicious moments of musical madness…

  • Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

    Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

    ★★★★½

    The original tagline for 1978’s Superman: The Movie was you’ll believe a man can fly. The man who brought a comic book superhero to life - and deserves credit for shaping the modern superhero film - spent the last nine years of his life paralyzed after falling from a horse.

    The irony of this tragedy is lost on one. Still, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story is a really well-done and refreshing documentary. Watching Reeve’s life unfold, from his and Robin Williams’…

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