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Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain 2024

★★★★½ Watched 08 Dec 2024

A brutal pop-art wood panel cacophony of obligation, confirmity, and denial of self animated and edited (those jump cuts, folks) within a centimeter of its life.
And there will be two more of these? Holy shit.
Inside Llewyn Davis 2013

★★★★½ Watched 27 Dec 2024

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

"You comfortable with harmonies?"
The movie fits snugly into the Coens' "shit keeps happening to me" ouvre, and it is also probably their best version of it.
Llewyn is such a miserable human being. Among his many other failures, he's a terrible to cats. (He also thinks all oranges tabbies are the same, but this is one of the very few things he isn't wrong about.) The deftness of the movie is that Llewyn isn't miserable in (wholly) unsympathetic ways.…

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Emilia Pérez 2024

★½ Watched 23 Jan 2025

Look, I'm not a part of any queer community, and I'm not Mexican, so issues of representations are not for me totally parse. I will say that this does—unsurprisingly given its whole deal—feel like filmmaking tourism on almost every level. Plenty of elements just don't make sense to me, someone outside of these communities, but not in a way that says, "I don't know because I'm not a part of them, but I understand what is happening." that I can…
Baby Mama 2008

★★ Rewatched 22 Jan 2025

"I want to reward you with five minutes of uninterrupted eye contact."
Goofy and disjointed. Coasts mostly on the chemistry between Fey and Poehler, which is probably the reason you're watching it anyway. It's certainly the reason anyone watched it in 2008, me included. (Also: Steve Martin's in this, and I completely forgot.)
Sigourney Weaver movies ranked (She's here to be old (cough59!cough) and glamorous, which is super easy for her. She does also get to be funny, which I always appreciate.)

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Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981

★★★★★ Rewatched 21 Jan 2025

Of all the great set pieces in this movie—and there are many!—we don't really talk enough about Karen Allen climbing up Harrison Ford like he's a tree when Indy and Marion are in the Well of Souls. (Allen's so great in this. Just steals the movie away from everyone whenever she's on screen.)
Hard Truths 2024

★★★★½ Watched 13 Nov 2024 2

I was discussing this with another volunteer who hadn't seen it, and I struggled a bit to fully describe the sensation it conjured up in me while viewing it.
It's a deeply empathetic film about the pressures (grief, trauma, fear, responsibility) we all face and how those pressures build, often turning us into little locuses of pain but can also turn us to epicenters of joy. Humor provides a relief valve for these pressure for the audience, but we're often…

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