I was interested in the premise, and I wanted to watch something before going to work. This was both funny as hell and slightly agonizing to watch. Like Danielle stand up oh my god!!! I say “slightly agonizing” because I tend to get strong secondhand embarrassment. And oh boy was I feeling that. It was also fun seeing all the different dynamics between the characters at the shiva itself. One minor nitpick: Netflix captions the Mourner’s Kaddish as Yiddish when it isn’t. It’s an Aramaic prayer. But that’s not the film’s fault; that’s on Netflix.
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Paddington 2014
Really sweet film. I appreciated the extra context of the story being inspired by Jewish children finding homes during World War II/the Holocaust. I will say, the transmisogynistic joke was weird as hell. Otherwise I would've given this five stars.
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2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
I knew nothing about this movie beforehand, and I’m glad I didn’t. Because wow was this a gorgeous experience. It sent chills down my spine and had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. I loved how ambiguous the ending was. It actually reminded me of Angel’s Egg in the sense that there’s little to no dialogue + largely visual + ambiguity. The viewer is also trusted to put the pieces together on their own. I think…
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Uglies 2024
I have a lot of thoughts as somebody who read the entire original series in middle school. First of all: Instagram filtered Pretties? Are you fucking serious? I always imagined them as being sort of uncanny valley in their facial features. But no, they just look like people you'd see online. One could argue that's the point. To that, I state my second problem. All of the main actors are well known celebrities, but I dunno, I feel like regular…
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