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  • Wicked

    ★★★★

  • Death Becomes Her

    ★★★½

  • When in Rome

    ★★★

  • Dream Scenario

    ★★★½

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  • Wicked

    Wicked

    ★★★★

    Such a good musical to movie adaptation. Absolutely impeccable production design and costuming - truly a transportation. Wish they allowed for more rawness in Cynthia Erivo’s singing (felt too polished imo, lost some of the cracked emotion Elphaba feels that is in Idina’s version but I don’t think that’s Cynthia’s fault)

  • When in Rome

    When in Rome

    ★★★

    i’m sorry I know this movie is bad and so predictable but I love Josh duhamel and Italy and it’s cute

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  • Bones and All

    Bones and All

    ★★½

    Great performances (Russell & Rylance in particular) & cinematography, didn’t love the writing/narrative progression. Wish Chalamet and Russell had more chemistry. For a cannibalism story that was promised to be more about the romance, the connection was rushed and underdeveloped. Wish we got more into the journey of their relationship. Rylance’s character (Sully) was a little too bizarre to be scary as opposed to funny sometimes. Though he was fucking creepy & I love Rylance’s commitment. Stuhlbarg’s scene felt like it was put…

  • Aftersun

    Aftersun

    ★★★★½

    Absolutely obliterated me. Beautiful performances by Mescal and Corio. A stunning portrait of childhood, depression, and nostalgia. First and foremost, though, this is a story of love and heartbreak between a father and daughter, and the temporal pervasiveness of grief/anachronistic projection of grief on memory.

    My heart was won by the way this film (fittingly) dances with itself, weaving in and out of time and perspective in a way that becomes clear perhaps a little later in the film than…

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