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  • The Brutalist

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist 2024

    ★★★★½ Watched 13 Jan 2025

    I share a lot of sentiment with both sides of critical opinion towards The Brutalist. I am equally obsessed, enamoured, and unsettled. I don't wanna be on record to join the "yay final cut" side of the discussion, but honestly thank goodness for directors final cut. Wouldn't want it any other way. As much as it uses its function and form from the literary world, it also explores the purpose of function and form within those boundaries. More so bursting…

  • Wicked

    Wicked 2024

    ★★★★ Watched 10 Dec 2024

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  • Mare of Easttown

    Mare of Easttown 2021

    ★½ Watched 31 May 2021 2

    I have never questioned myself so much based on the positive reception of this show. I think it’s hot garbage that was written by AI in a random whodoneit generator. It’s a show about “grief” and only explores it through therapy exposition and emotional music cues. Kate owns the part even through laughable dialogue and characters that have zero chemistry. 

    This is the first thing I’ve ever felt like I’m alone on an island about. There are actual plot holes…

  • Game Night

    Game Night 2018

    ★★★★½ Watched 02 Mar 2018 4

    As I walked through the mall to shop, everyone loved to ask what I was doing for the evening. It's such a simple gesture of customer service, but always appreciated. When asked, I answered that I was going to see Game Night. I told so many poor souls at the tills, but every one of them seemed excited for me. Not because they had seen it, but because they heard it was good. As I looked them in the eyes,…

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