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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  All in all one of the less eventful Nifleheim Incidents

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  What's Up, Doc? 1972

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  This was great! Just have a few notes:

  1. The action is really crammed in at the end. Why not have two to three more action setpieces that don’t really move the story forward? Maybe the main character can say something like “Holy balls, I just shot a guy!” and mug at the camera.

  2. Barbra Streisand is so good! But I never really get the sense of her character’s motivations. Could we take out some of her jokes and…

Popular reviews

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  Hundreds of Beavers 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Apr 2024 1

  For the past 15 years, comedy has been pushed to a more personal, intellectual place. This has resulted in some incredible pieces of art from underrepresented backgrounds and works that directly tackle issues of class, power, and mental health. The comedies that don’t follow this trend have been increasingly lazy, if they exist at all. Do I need Rick and Morty to also be about familial abuse and trauma? Why does Adam McKay only make live action twitter threads? 

  I…

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★½ Watched 24 Dec 2024 1

  A new movie shot with an old format about the new world but filmed in the old country.

  It invites us to reflect on the past while promising a rich text to study in the future but forgets to engage with the present.

  An architectural model of a film.

  EDIT: Dropped a star due to AI