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  France 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  As a study of Léa Seydoux's face and the existential mysteries of stardom, it's quite riveting - an unpredictable melodrama of increasingly absurd trials that put our eponymous heroine (idc it was never not funny to me that her name is literally France) through the ringer. Elsewhere, Dumont is sketchier and circling around narrative gestures that don't add up to much and eventually becomes kind of numbing. Regardless, I'll take a zillion cuckoo movies like this over most other "respectable" fare.

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  Naked Killer 1992

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  The cuntiest women you've ever seen going POW POW WAPOOSH SLAP BAM BAM WOOSH WSSSHHH WACHOOO FLIP FLIP VRRTT BRRRAP BRRRAP WOOMP

Popular reviews

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★ Watched 23 Jan 2024

  Pretty stupid,and not always in a good way! Emma Stone is quite mesmerizing, and without her the whole thing would be pretty unwatchable. Confused by the steampunk kitsch, which seems to be more or less superfluous, especially when Yorgos' aggressively distracting shooting style rarely allows one to really appreciate the craft. The silly girl boss pop feminist conclusions aren't far from Barbie's similarly reductive conclusions, but I was rarely bored! Some interesting connections to Dogtooth (probably still my favorite Yorgos…

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★½ Watched 12 Jan 2025 4

  Felt like a biopic (derogatory). Hits many familiar beats as a Tortured Genuis narrative and a European Immigrant narrative that it's something of a relief when it indulges a kind of Gothic psychodrama in the second half. Well it would be if those parts were interesting or successful.

  Consistently reminding you of its Grand Importance (title cards, declarative dialogue, sweeping music) with very little depth to back up its flashy surface. Also sick of contemporary art films (Tar, for one)…