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This movie somehow destroyed me even more the second time around. Everything about this is perfect - obviously the surface level stuff is still great, but my god is the theme of the female gaze perfectly realized, from the way they talk about discovering each other's quirks through watching each other to Heloise telling Marianne to look at the abortion and to look at her and then Marianne carrying that lesson forward to tell her students to look at her.…
I am so glad that Wes Anderson has dropped his obsession with framing devices, that was really wearing thin. I really liked this one. The deeper theme of a truly horrible man opening himself up to his daughter for selfish reasons but then being changed into a better person through that was great, but the overall plot for this was just so fun. I always love a good globe-trotting adventure, and the quirkiness of this felt like it was kicked…
Dead Reckoning is unfortunately a bit of a step down from Fallout and Rogue Nation. It falls into a lot of the same pitfalls that previous films did, and also often fails to top the best scenes from those films. It repeats the franchise's unfortunate history of cycling through its female ing characters, and severely weakens Ilsa as a character and a combatant (the way she is treated in this is such a step down from when she was Ethan's…
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This is one of the most entertainingly bad movies I have seen in a long time, I can't recommend it enough. Pretty much everything about this movie is horribly misguided, but just to get the good out of the way first, the costume design is arresting (loved the art deco inspirations), Aubrey Plaza is perfectly on the wavelength of the nonsense of this movie (and is so fun to watch, that whole Auntie Wow scene was ridiculous but she sold…
