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  The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 2023

  ★★ Watched 16 Nov 2023 3

  The 10th Hunger Games is more harrowing than other iterations we have been exposed to. It's before the spectacle; just children murdering each other in a drab arena. Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes shines whenever it explores the roots of this strain of state terrorism. Dr. Gaul insists that humanity, at its core, is evil, and the games serve as a reminder of what we will devolve to in the absence of a draconian entity determining the conditions of our existence.…

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  The Killer 2023

  ½ Watched 11 Nov 2023

  bad movie alert

  most AI generated script of the year

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★ Watched 19 Jul 2023 217

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

  it's the most dissatisfying response to the incel crisis. ken is a lot more compelling than barbie here. the idea of existing in disprivilege in barbieland, where your occupation is "beach" and the woman you were created to love does not care for your existence, only to discover the real world and the joys of patriarchy just hits. contrast this with barbie; she thrives in a matriarchal society until she discovers that reality is different, that women are often subservient…

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  Buffalo '66 1998

  ½ Watched 19 Dec 2019 78

  this movie keeps on haunting me because people are so suffocating in their love for it. it's a piece of shit. the worst defense i've seen of buffalo '66 is "it's good because it's very revealing of gallo's mental state." you are saying that a movie that romanticizes the abuse of a teenage girl & reduces her to nothing but a device for the protagonist's redemption is good because it reveals that the director is a lonely narcissist. incredible insight. i'm…