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  The Tuba Thieves 2023

  Watched 27 May 2023

  Not rating on principle because I fucked up and didn’t arrive until halfway through, but this is obviously a major work. (I spent most of the individual scene credits going “THAT was in the movie?? And I missed it???”) Run, don’t walk.

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  Paris Is Burning 1990

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 May 2023

  Literally the smartest talking heads in any documentary

Popular reviews

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  Eighth Grade 2018

  Added 2

  haven't seen this yet but when Elsie Fisher mentioned Letterboxd on Jimmy Kimmel exactly one person in the audience went "woo!" and I just want to know which one of you fuckers it was

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  Cuck 2019

  ½ Watched 08 Oct 2019 5

  Donald Trump’s name is never uttered in Cuck. His likeness is briefly featured, but the man himself is only ever referred to once, and only in the abstract: “our president”. His presence registers with all the weight of an off-brand “Combover Leader” Halloween mask. Barack Obama gets a similar silent treatment, although he’s at least afforded a freakishly anachronistic “Obummer” epithet. This is what we call a “small victory”.

  Cuck is the type of movie where the main character watches…