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Working Girl 1988
I don’t know how business works but I know enough to know none of the business in this movie makes any sense
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Some Kind of Heaven 2020
stepford grandparents. mesmerizing. some huge laughs. dennis a real life version of updike’s rabbit.
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TÁR 2022
masterpiece. I think the brilliance lies in its omissions. you never see the alleged transgressions (minus one particular moment featuring an edit of a previous scene we saw in its entirety to make a point) or “difficult conversations.” too much work trying to capture the cultural zeitgeist portrays morality in black and white. tar lives in the gray. it’s an all-encompassing character study of an archetypal, exceptional american artist in the 21st century. what we allow artists to get away…
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Black Christmas 2019
TL;DR: There’s an unironic joke reference to Kavanaugh’s ‘I like beer’ line.
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At face value, this is an above-average PG-13 horror movie.Then there’s everything else in this dumpster fire of a movie...
They threw a bunch of of-the-moment ideas about feminism, toxic masculinity, problematic history & campus rape into a blender and poured it over a genre movie with no consideration, nuance or grace. For a movie that is allegedly about “strong women” it features some of the least…