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Babygirl 2024
As much as Babygirl can be simplified to smut, it still pushes us to consider what a powerful white woman manipulating the rules to service her repressed sexual desires actually looks like. After grinding it out in the capitalist game, Nicole Kidman’s character has achieved stability, wealth, and influence in America’s greatest city. But of course, she has ignored her own primal needs that are unlocked by a new, young, corporate entrant. Babygirl doesn’t have the artfulness of an American…
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Little Women 2019
Rewatched this one recently and wow what a powerhouse of a movie that doesn’t glance over the delicate, human moments portrayed by one of the best casts in recent memory. Greta transports us through seasons, estates, and all the crevices of class differences in a well-imagined 19th century Americana, down to the threads adorned by each character. I felt cold as these sisters walked to school in the dead of winter and warm when they returned home to their living…
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Thelma 2024
A delightfully watchable film that had me really missing my grandparents. Elderly folks are often overlooked in a world careening towards more, faster, better. We too easily ignore the specific vivaciousness and clarity of love that only those who’ve gone through life’s most difficult challenges in a deteriorating shell possess. Those who still choose to wake up every day and invoke forces unknowable to the measly American work horse. Thelma may not be a Tom Cruise offering dramatic twists and…
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