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To Sir, with Love 1967
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
interesting to watch as an on again off again teacher myself who has also dealt with shitty classroom dynamics and on occasion had success in improving the vibe, if only incrementally (nothing like is seen here). also very interesting (and i know it's frequently discussed) as a political picture. i'm not going to be able to quote exactly but that line "it's your duty to change the world, if you can, peacefully, not violently, as an individual, not as a…
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A Complete Unknown 2024
I feel insane looking at the ratings/reviews so many people have this. I knew very little about Dylan going in and I feel like I know even less coming out of it. Ed Norton as Pete Seeger was decent, have no idea how to judge Chalamet’s performance here bc the character was so boring. Just shuffling around saying Bob Dylan Quotes for two hours and then it just kind of ends. I dunno maybe I’ve just seen too many musician…
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American Promise 2013
Psycho helicopter parents set out to make a documentary about their son’s entire life (as it relates to the prestigious school he attends) showing him at his most dysfunctional, lazy, and undisciplined — accidentally wind up creating a fascinated deep dive exposé on themselves and their disturbing neuroses, including but not limited to their choice to make this thing to begin with.
At its best it’s intimate, real, and genuinely moving. Both the kids who are followed are very likable…
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The Northman 2022
Liked it more on second watch. Very interesting to watch with my mom who is a medievalist who has studied pretty extensively all the Viking sagas in the original Old Norse. I was curious her take on this one since Viking shit gets misrepresented so often. Apparently the biggest most glaring error here is in making all the sorcerers, wizards, oracles, priests etc. men; they are nearly always women in the sagas. There’s even a part in the beginning where…
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