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Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  Watched 20 Mar 2025

  it's alright! bleak, which is of course a feature and not a bug, but i'm not sure that's where i'm at in this precise way. and that could have been fine (i don't necessarily need to personally vibe with something to recognize it as good), but also... i think it was doing too much? i like a movie that has a point to make, but this had too many of them at once, and all of them suffered because of…

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  Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy 2025

  Watched 11 Mar 2025

  i liked this a lot! i think it had some pacing issues, there were some things that could have been explored better or at all, and i didn't always jive with the narrow (if popular, mainstream, and deeply culturally ingrained) view of romance and sex this kept leaning on heavily, but then again that last part is of course expected going into most mainstream romcoms, and especially a bridget jones movie. and i will forgive a lot for the simple…

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  Monkey Man 2024

  Watched 10 Apr 2024

  hypnotizingly violent, mesmerizingly bloody, and not exactly funny, but so constantly just so relentlessly fun to watch - it's stylish, it's gorgeous, it's lush with enough meaning to sink your teeth into until you break skin. loved it, loved it, loved it. meeting transgender people might be the best thing that could ever happen to you. even in being so clearly (and openly) one of many following in the monumental legacy of john wick, this is never doing just that,…

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  Wicked 2024

  Watched 11 Dec 2024 2

  oh my god??? for context, i went into this with ZERO knowledge. just absolutely zip, zilch, nada. i have never even seen so much as the wizard of oz 1939 (you heard it here first, i'm a fake fan of movies) and i was honestly genuinely a little surprised when i was sitting in the theatre for this movie and they started singing, even though, in hindsight, i definitely did at some point know that they would, and i had…