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  The Substance 2024

  Watched 28 Sep 2024

  Cronenberg walked so this movie could… also walk.
  
  This movie really plateaus after the set up, story-wise, thematically, and (honestly) in terms of gore. I can’t quite put my finger on it but the latter just fell flat mostly, and sometimes just felt like “going through the motions” of body horror. 

  “Heavy handed” is too subtle of a term for what this movie is. Maybe that’s to make up for how little it actually explores the themes it introduces. Not…

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  I'm a Virgo 2023

  Watched 02 Mar 2024 1

  Boots Riley is really good at making weird, surreal film based in a town I love. It’s too bad he squanders that talent making this dogshit political commentary.

  Not only are there multiple several-minute monologues about why capitalism is bad, which like, maybe is useful for some people, but there is also a ridiculous amount of squabbling over Boots’ perceived correct political line. Jones makes herself the most insufferable character the entire show only to be eventually “proven right”—that “change”…

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  Saltburn 2023

  Watched 25 Nov 2023

  Maybe the writers should go back on strike so I don’t have to watch movies like this

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  Les Misérables 2019

  Watched 09 Dec 2020

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