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★★★★½ Rewatched 01 Jan 2025
Watched this with my 4-year-old (his first-ever feature film taken in at one sitting), and he was enchanted. He's been singing "Chim Chim Cheree" for an hour.
Every time I watch this, it's reinforces to me how much of an absolute masterpiece it is. From the suffragette (& toxic masculinity) subplots to the running themes of empathy and work-life balance, this musical has aged remarkably well.
(My South London in-laws snarked on Dick Van Dyke's accent a bit, but even they were rapt through the whole thing.)
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★★★★½ Watched 19 Dec 2024
“Something’s wrong with me,” she tells her mother.
“I don’t have any friends. It’s a complete mystery to me,” she says.
”I thought everyone hated me, and it turns out that wasn’t true,” she says.
Lacy is a smart, perceptive, awkward pre-teen who isn’t getting the parental wisdom she needs to get through her childhood, stuck with a mother who’s even more emotionally lost than she is. Thing is, she’s smart enough to make it to adulthood just fine, but…
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★★★★½ Watched 18 Oct 2019
Parasite starts as a fun-looking little thriller about a family of grifters and their oblivious marks. But then the heat turns up, and then it finds another gear, and another, and soon everyone in the theater had stopped breathing, waiting for the next moment.
To call it a Korean "Get Out" as written by Dostoevsky kind of sells it a bit short. Hitchcock would be proud.
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★★★★★ Watched 11 Aug 2019
As much as anything, this is a love letter to New York City; it felt full of little easter eggs only people who live in NYC would get, and the plot reminded me enough of "The Warriors" that I was able to relax and watch it on those terms.
This is as frenetic and eye-burning a movie as you'll ever see, and yet it's achingly beautiful in parts. I wept openly multiple times as Miles Morales found connection with people…
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