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  • Bad Moms

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  • Beau Travail

    Beau Travail 1999

    ★★★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2023

    Society tells men they have to dig holes and crawl around in the dirt and engage in aggressive hug-fights under the hot Djibouti sun, but Claire Denis knows all we really wanna do is dance.

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  • Evil Dead II

    Evil Dead II 1987

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 26 Aug 2021 4

    When I was a kid, I’d see Evil Dead II on the shelf in the video store every week. I wasn’t allowed to rent it, so I’d just stand there in the aisle and stare at the skeleton guy on the cover of the VHS. He had bizarrely human eyes. Was he smiling? For years, I’d wonder about the skeleton guy: “What’s his deal? What’s his name? Is he villain or hero? Does he have a purpose?” Finally, when I was 15,…

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  • Bad Moms

    Bad Moms 2016

    ★★ Watched 15 Dec 2024

    A movie about motherhood written by two dudes, in which everyone lives in the largest house you’ve ever seen and drives sports cars and quits their jobs with no financial or professional repercussions. A movie that wants you to believe the effortlessly cool and beautiful Mila Kunis would ever be an unpopular outcast in her posh community. Yet another movie where Kathryn Hahn gives far and away the best performance.

    (Justin Timberlake in The Social Network voice) “Drop the ‘Moms…’ Just call it ‘Bad.’ It’s cleaner.”

  • Friday the 13th

    Friday the 13th 1980

    ★★★½ Rewatched 14 Dec 2024

    Not sure I’m following how strip monopoly works. It seems like each article of clothing should be assigned a dollar value so that what a player removes depends on the money owed for landing on, for example, Baltic Avenue. These counselors are just taking off whatever they feel like every other turn. What are the rules? What is going on? Why play such a lengthy and complicated board game if everyone’s just gonna be ass-naked a few turns in? Just play strip Candy Land, losers.

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  • Chocolat

    Chocolat 2000

    ★★★½ Watched 30 Aug 2021

    in which Alfred Molina tries to send everyone to horny jail

  • Oppenheimer

    Oppenheimer 2023

    ★★★★★ Watched 21 Jul 2023

    “Lord, these affairs are hard on your heart.” You can say that again, JRO. Holy hell. This film hollowed me out. Made me feel hopelessly sad. People are latching onto the word “staggering” in reviews, and they’re right. Oppenheimer is staggering: in length, in structure, in emotion, in history, in despair. It’s a feast of sound and vision. Nolan was trying to put a dent in the world with this one. It feels like he’s been directing it in his head…

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