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“that somehow it would all lead to…something.”

everyone i know has a big “but”

this movie is about the queer agenda vs trump

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

all the congressman’s mercenaries

verbose

a great improvement on the original production. proves the reason revivals can be so potent — songs and actions get reinvestigated/justified 

some wonderful piano arrangements, staging moves to highlight parallels between character arcs, and the twist is better hidden/revealed

the writing still drive me nuts with its cloying sentimentality, but its insights are put in a better light in the context of a kitchen sink play, where the songs become delusions/reveries/departures

shea whigham innocent

“for someone born ‘neath an angry star
lest we forget how fragile we are”

best movie of the year so far

i think you mean “black widow”

this is actually a pretty sweet movie, scarjo and flopugh are a great duo

“i am the storm” lol

this is an expensive episode of “criminal minds”

wolf blitzer cameo rules tho

positively able (aside from the todd phillips requisite homophobia, sexism, racism, etc)

“this is a good job for you. plus the money’s good, the kids won’t starve.”

“i don’t have kids.”

“yeah, but i do.”

This review may contain spoilers.

marvel mental health month?

literalizing therapy speak into actual trauma rooms was a choice

gunn’s GUARDIANS and THE SUICIDE SQUAD did the “bad guy group” trope better

and DIRTY DOZEN has still not been topped

the MCU is a TV show. nothing about the way this movie looks or is scored plays to the tone of the characters. no sense of humor, it’s just grey mid

which is very likely not what schrier wanted, as everything else he’s made has had a strong POV

these movies are sad now

props to the actors, they make sense of it and invest and that's hard

a classy, personal take on the end of the world from the POV of everyday citizens

great shots, performances, insights

a televised play

black smoke

Watched on Wednesday May 7, 2025.

cannot believe how the premise disappears halfway through, in favor of an anti-showbiz,
pro-suburb rom-com

the deer

wow, how problematic

trash treasure

“okay pussyface, it’s your move.”

the punk “my way” cover at the end!!!!

campgasm

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i love the genres coogler’s playing with, and the themes he’s trying to reflect. but the movie is a mess. the genius of GET OUT was that it was a tidy little genre exercise with big themes lying in wait. this could have been GREEN ROOM with a depth underneath, but instead it plays like a dark drama from the top which upends the fun vampire movie it’s leading to, before it even gets started. doesn’t add up to more than the sum of its many parts

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fahy scream queen! so deserved, funny, spot on

movie falls apart in the 3rd act, but first 2 are fun (though the hitchcock enjoyment is thrown out of balance by the mom abuse subplot. not at all fun.)

the score alone…then the film’s that good too

sherman bros supremacy

you know it’s a constitutional crisis when:

i start rewatching comfort movies

“why don’t you get your own fuckin life? your own fuckin interests?”

“beautifulhandwrittenletters.com, please hold.”

a well worn fable, but told well through emotional, insightful shots. natural lighting on film. quiet and visceral and eloquent. awesome narrative songs.

THE DEPARTED meets A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

val’s havin a hammy blast

film makes everything look leagues better

old internet pre-social media is romantic

volvo sports car sponsorship attempt

brings down fascism

absolutely idiotic characters actively trapping themselves and making bad decisions

some fun updating of the self awareness, but no one lands the cadence except williamson

a copy of a copy of a copy of a

mr. grandma

“hoowee, it’s gonna be a scorcher today.”

sumptuously and simply shot for a dollar, full of revolutionary closeups, dialogue, concepts, colors, cultures, humor, drama, politics, the list goes on. a devastating triumph every time

martin lawrence lateral lithp

giancarlo esposito bugeye glasses

“one hand is always fighting the other hand.”

the dialogue is just piss-poor. like a book report. but it does hang together structurally, better than most nolanage

2 year old loves it. more cogent than the ‘63 film, more true to the stage show, and kudisch’s chin is burned into my memory, as is costanza’s wig. 

but, def tv movie vibes, reinking’s choreography 
is nonexistent, and it stops being about the kids in the back half, which explains some of the changes for the ‘63 movie — especially the downplaying of albert’s mama rose.

clearly, i’m on a plane

“it’s like i’ve been in a dream…where somehow i was really invested in the zack snyder cut of the justice league…”

what an awesome, dreamlike grad student art film

helen’s turn

“he’ll be home on friday.”

fascinating, infuriating

what could have been a pandemic concept with no ability to sustain 90 minutes turns out to be a surreal, frequently hilarious meditation on being a dad in a dystopia. tears apart male tropes, while keeping the human drama humming, even as the story gets more and more ridiculous. 

pomme koch standout as mo!

dorsia, how'd he swing that?

slick script, stacked cast, thin plot, tough twist

soothing score, a character named lydia dietz??

fantastic and enduring! but:

- someone mentions “they’re hookers cut to look like movie stars” 5x, just in case we didn’t hear em the first time. studio notes!

- the score is the same melody as FIRST BLOOD

“it’s a rat’s nest in there. the same gang of talentless hicks and hacks who rejected the amendment 10 months ago. we’ll lose.”

“i like our chances now.”

1. Superman
2. Batman
3. Batman Returns
4. The Dark Knight
5. The Batman
6. The Suicide Squad
7. Superman II
8. Batman Begins
9. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
10. Batman Forever

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1. Friendship
2. The Eternaut
3. Black Bag
4. Daddy
5. Sinners
6. Mickey 17
7. Drop
8. Thunderbolts*
9. The Gorge

1. Iron Man
2. Black Panther
3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
4. The Avengers
5. Thor: Ragnarok
6. Captain America: Civil War
7. Blade II
8. Spider-Man 2
9. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
10. WandaVision

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• The Burden
• Anomalisa
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• True Stories
• Stop Making Sense
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• Into the Woods
• The Lives of Others

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• Tully
• Kicking and Screaming
• I Used to Be Famous
• In a Lonely Place
• The Kid Stays in the Picture
• F for Fake
• Hustle
• Be Water
• EO
• After Yang

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1. All That Jazz
2. Little Shop of Horrors
3. Amadeus
4. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
5. Almost Famous
6. That Thing You Do!
7. Once
8. Moulin Rouge!
9. True Stories
10. Chicago

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• Back to the Future
• Minority Report
• Knives Out
• Men in Black
• Split Second
• Blade Runner
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Déjà Vu

1. The Verdict
2. The Untouchables
3. The Edge
4. House of Games
5. State and Main
6. Glengarry Glen Ross
7. Wag the Dog
8. American Buffalo

1. Being John Malkovich
2. Adaptation.
3. Her
4. Aziz Ansari: Right Now
5. Where the Wild Things Are
6. Beastie Boys Story

1. Do the Right Thing
2. Malcolm X
3. ing Strange
4. David Byrne's American Utopia
5. Over
6. He Got Game
7. Inside Man
8. BlacKkKlansman
9. Da 5 Bloods
10. 25th Hour

1. Jaws
2. Jurassic Park
3. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
4. Schindler's List
5. Saving Private Ryan
6. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
7. Hook
8. Minority Report
9. The Sugarland Express
10. Catch Me If You Can

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• Mulholland Drive
• Rosemary's Baby
• Nashville
• The Player
• TÁR
• That Thing You Do!
• Singin' in the Rain
• Barton Fink
• Bound
• Challengers

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• The Warriors
• 48 Hrs.
• Streets of Fire
• Red Heat
• Last Man Standing

1. Goldfinger
2. The Bourne Identity
3. North by Northwest
4. The Lives of Others
5. Three Days of the Condor
6. Mission: Impossible
7. Marathon Man
8. The Manchurian Candidate
9. Charade
10. The Third Man

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1. Conclave
2. Sing Sing
3. The Substance
4. Challengers
5. A Different Man
6. Janet Planet
7. Nickel Boys
8. The Brutalist
9. Hundreds of Beavers
10. Kneecap

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1. Amadeus
2. Malcolm X
3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
4. Reds
5. The Insider
6. The Social Network
7. Shakespeare in Love
8. Donnie Brasco
9. Bonnie and Clyde
10. Serpico

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1. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
3. Strangers on a Train
4. Mission: Impossible
5. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
6. Murder on the Orient Express
7. Runaway Train
8. The Commuter
9. Snowpiercer
10. Collateral

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1. Trainspotting
2. 28 Days Later
3. Slumdog Millionaire
4. 127 Hours
5. Millions
6. Sunshine
7. The Beach
8. Trance
9. Steve Jobs
10. Yesterday

1. Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2. Adam Sandler: Love You
3. STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces
4. Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos
5. Martha
6. Will & Harper
7. LIGHT & MAGIC
8. The Greatest Night in Pop
9. Rather
10. Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV

1. The Sixth Sense
2. Signs
3. Trap
4. The Village
5. Unbreakable

1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. Children of Men
3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
4. Independence Day
5. Night of the Living Dead
6. The Thing
7. WALL·E
8. Chernobyl
9. The Mitchells vs. the Machines
10. Mad Max 2

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• Sing Sing
• La Chimera
• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
• Flow
• Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
• Red Rooms
• Nosferatu
• Problemista
• Evil Does Not Exist
• Between the Temples

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1. Ocean's Eleven
2. Heat
3. Rififi
4. Die Hard
5. Bonnie and Clyde
6. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
7. Dog Day Afternoon
8. Hell or High Water
9. Out of Sight
10. Three Kings

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• Persona
• Tampopo
• Modern Romance
• Point Blank
• Dont Look Back
• The Lobster
• Repo Man
• A Bigger Splash
• Upgrade
• Evil Dead II

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• Schindler's List
• Darkman
• Batman Begins
• Widows
• The Commuter
• Cold Pursuit
• Taken
• Love Actually
• Non-Stop
• Run All Night

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1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Creed
3. Top Gun: Maverick
4. The Matrix Resurrections
5. The Color of Money
6. Scream
7. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
8. Bill & Ted Face the Music
9. Gladiator II
10. Blade Runner 2049

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1. Alien
2. Thelma & Louise
3. Gladiator
4. Blade Runner
5. The Martian
6. American Gangster
7. Black Hawk Down
8. Matchstick Men
9. Napoleon
10. Gladiator II

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1. Rocky
2. A League of Their Own
3. Jerry Maguire
4. Bull Durham
5. Field of Dreams
6. The Sandlot
7. Moneyball
8. Blue Chips
9. The Wrestler
10. The Mighty Ducks

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1. Evil Dead II
2. A Simple Plan
3. Spider-Man 2
4. Spider-Man
5. Darkman
6. The Evil Dead
7. Drag Me to Hell
8. The Quick and the Dead
9. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
10. Spider-Man 3

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1. Knocked Up
2. Funny People
3. The 40 Year Old Virgin
4. This Is 40
5. Trainwreck
6. The King of Staten Island

• Strange Darling
• Eddie the Eagle
• Twisters
• Challengers
• Taking Lives
• Lance
• The Armstrong Lie
• Upgrade
• A Bigger Splash
• Trap

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1. Sunday in the Park with George
2. Into the Woods
3. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
4. West Side Story
5. Reds
6. Dick Tracy
7. Original Cast Album: Company
8. Evening Primrose
9. Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...
10. The Last of Sheila

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1. Back to the Future
2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
3. Groundhog Day
4. La Jetée
5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
6. Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes
7. Primer
8. Safety Not Guaranteed
9. Twelve Monkeys
10. Star Trek

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1. Network
2. 12 Angry Men
3. Dog Day Afternoon
4. The Verdict
5. Serpico
6. Murder on the Orient Express
7. The Anderson Tapes
8. Prince of the City

• Being John Malkovich
• Adaptation.
• Her
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Aziz Ansari: Right Now
• Beastie Boys Story

• Green Room
• Blue Ruin
• Rebel Ridge

• Fargo
• Chinatown
• Se7en
• Taxi Driver
• Rififi
• Double Indemnity
• Night Moves
• The Long Goodbye
• One False Move
• A Simple Plan

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1. Superman
2. Batman
3. Black Panther
4. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
5. RoboCop
6. The Rocketeer
7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
8. Batman Returns
9. Iron Man
10. The Incredibles

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• Call Me by Your Name
• Challengers
• A Bigger Splash
• Suspiria
• Bones and All

• Safety Not Guaranteed
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Sunday in the Park with George
• Frank
• Almost Famous
• The End of the Tour
• The Spy Who Loved Me
• Mission: Impossible
• Josie and the Pussycats
• The Science of Sleep

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• Network
• All the President's Men
• Almost Famous
• The Insider
• Reds
• Spotlight
• Broadcast News
• The End of the Tour
• My Week with Marilyn
• Good Night, and Good Luck.

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• 12 Angry Men
• Before Sunset
• Die Hard
• Halloween
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Lovers Rock
• La Haine
• Night of the Living Dead
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
• Opening Night

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• The Matrix
• The Truman Show
• Pleasantville
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Stop Making Sense
• The Lego Movie
• Back to the Future
• Sorry to Bother You
• Being John Malkovich
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• Shaun of the Dead
• Baby Driver
• Hot Fuzz
• The World's End
• Last Night in Soho

1. The Insider
2. Heat
3. Collateral
4. Thief
5. The Last of the Mohicans
6. Manhunter
7. Ali
8. Ferrari
9. Public Enemies
10. Miami Vice

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• Parenthood
• Apollo 13
• Frost/Nixon
• Thirteen Lives
• A Beautiful Mind
• Willow
• Ransom
• Night Shift
• The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
• Backdraft

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• Boogie Nights
• There Will Be Blood
• Phantom Thread
• Magnolia
• The Master
• Punch-Drunk Love
• Licorice Pizza
• Inherent Vice
• Cigarettes & Coffee

• Inglourious Basterds
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1
• Kill Bill: Vol. 2
• Pulp Fiction
• Reservoir Dogs
• Grindhouse
• Jackie Brown
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• Django Unchained
• The Hateful Eight

• The Prestige
• Memento
• The Dark Knight
• Batman Begins
• Oppenheimer
• Inception
• Insomnia
• Dunkirk
• Interstellar
• Tenet

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• The Social Network
• Fight Club
• Se7en
• Zodiac
• The Game
• Gone Girl
• Panic Room
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Mank