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A delight

Visceral enough but that early digital video quality is uglyyyyyy

Cute!

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

Cried and cried

I was surprisingly charmed!

Charming actresses! Awkward plotting!

I had ed it being better than this. Amy’s boobs are lovely tho.

A chuckle fest

Goofy. Fun enough.

Just immaculate

What a rush!

Big old shrug

Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.

Watched on Friday March 21, 2025.

Watched on Friday March 21, 2025.

Something was off for me tonally, but cute enough.

Such a finely written movie

Provocative!

Marvelous. Sexy, slinky, sleek. Gave me less of what I thought I wanted (spycraft) and more of what I apparently needed (powerful simmering sexual tension). Responded so strongly to this.

Kinda tedious tbh

Watched on Wednesday March 12, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

A bit slight but very sweet

Very silly

Love Miss Lia

Watched on Sunday February 16, 2025.

Watched on Saturday February 15, 2025.

The rhythm gets a bit lost toward the end but I’ll allow it because the first two acts are so electric

Incredibly moving

So fucking unsettling.

Watched on Thursday January 23, 2025.

Perhaps less of an emotional wallop than Pixar’s best but what fun.

The first half of the movie is flawless and staggering and earns enough goodwill from me to cover for the bumpier second half. I went in so ready to roll my eyes at the self seriousness of it all but I was completely won over by it in the end.

I come up with all these notes about questionable direction choices and clunky writing and then Cynthia sings loud and Ari tosses her hair and I just lose all objectivity.

Did not like it the first time but it’s been rattling around in my head since I saw it a month ago, so I watched again. And you know what? I like it less this time. Once the thrill of “I can’t believe they’re really attempting this” wears off, I’m just left with baffling writing choices, a really reductive understanding of gender, and instantly forgettable melodies, poorly sung. The strong performances are the movie’s only saving grace.

Finely made and lushly atmospheric but a little bit tedious tbh

Grotesque

Very seductive. Nicole is doing something very exciting. Straight people’s darkest fantasies are fairly tame, tho.

Really should not work as well as it does. I should not be swooning like this over the lady fucking the fish

An incredibly conventionally structured biopic but god damn Angela is just electric.

Just lovely

The reason to watch the first was Charlize and she’s barely in this one. Writing is awful, art direction and costumes are not gaggy and Emily Blunt does not have the juice.

Music is bad but otherwise a perfect film. I’m screaming, I’m crying, I live right near that Donut Time!

Power is undiminished on second viewing. Ari is doing some really layered acting under the operatic high notes in that opening number. Defying Gravity still leaves me shaking and weak in the knees.

CGI kinda ugly. Defying Gravity too chopped up. Michelle Yeoh is regal but miscast. Still completely irresistible. Cynthia! Ariana! Fiyero! All out of this world. Rare instance of live vocals in a movie musical mostly working! The racism/fascism message always felt so broad/clunky, funny how poignant it feels in the CURRENT MOMENT. Not even mad about splitting it up into two movies. They’re right, it SHOULD end on Defying Gravity.

Odd

Perhaps the greatest performance ever?

Repeat viewing does not diminish the thrill. I was still jumping off the couch and hollering as the credits rolled.

Truly fantastic