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Recent reviews

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  I'm Still Here 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  My Best Picture watch is done!

  TL;DR Review: I’m Still Here is a beautiful and heartbreaking watch. A solid contender for Best Picture this year and a beautiful and intimate piece of filmmaking. The reality of fascist terror on the lives of families is laid bare in this story (based on true events) of a woman’s relentless search for the truth about her husband’s forced disappearance at the hands of the state. Fernanda Torres is a force of nature and…

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  Emilia Pérez 2024

  ★★ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  TL;DR Review: Emilia Pérez is an incoherent superficial mess that, while well performed and technically interesting, is too confused and frankly too racist to merit any praise. Whatever interesting seeds of ideas that are present here were peed and shat on by this director.

  The music sucks ass. It besmirches the good name of the movie musical.

  SCORE: 4/10

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  2:30am review excuse the typos

  Many people smarter than me, with more knowledge about the lived experience of trans people…

Popular reviews

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  The Wild Robot 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Sep 2024 2

  Dreamworks has created their most beautifully animated project to date, and with a simple but gorgeously executed story, The Wild Robot is a certified tearjerker. The themes of motherhood, the constancy and grief found in change, our purpose in life, and the necessity of rising above our base instincts to harm and compete and lean towards love, collaboration, and selfless service make this film a PERFECT movie for people of all ages. I loved this film, I loved Lupita N’yongo…

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  Hereditary 2018

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Apr 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.