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Even better the second time….

Especially in imax 70mm…..

Soooooo fucking good….

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I just can’t get over the image of Hagrid and Voldemort drinking beers together at a plaza in Bruges. So iconic. 

So much great silliness and irony in this movie. Colin Farrell is also soooooo hot damn I love a good Irish accent. 

Anyway this was just a really fun little adventure with multiple murders, a lot of cursing, and a lot of propaganda for me to book my next trip to Bruges. I’m not complaining!!!

I really loved this even being a self proclaimed hater until I’m not a hater especially with animated movies. 

I loved the way it depicted many of the nuances of the immigrant experience. Feeling like a stranger where you immigrate to as well as a stranger when you come back to the country where you’re from - and essentially always a stranger, even sometimes with your own family. I strongly related to Marjane not just for figuring everything out as it relates to her immigrant experience but also the way she always leads with her heart. I love that she doesn’t give an F about what others say and always speaks her mind and makes the hard decisions because at the end of it all she knows they’re the right ones. Young girls everywhere can use her as a role model. 

I love how this movie challenges the concept of the hijab and frames the oppressive nature of the garment and the inherent offenses that the patriarchy has instilled to allow the creation for this garment. I love the way the women in the movie perceive it differently and figure out how to live with it. I felt the voice acting  was very strong and I loved the animation style - it felt very engaging and unique even with most of it being in black and white. 

Something about the expressions of the characters really stuck with me - the simplicity of the drawings somehow still elicited a lot of emotions and ways to connect with the characters which is a hard task to accomplish. I really enjoyed the relationship with Marjane and her grandmother and felt like it was a beautiful way of encouraging her to speak her truth and do the hard things when they feel right. 

Yeah it’s true that not many of the other characters are developed but I really believe that this movie did a great job of explaining the conflict in Iran that led to the war and the way it forever changed what the country is like. It captured really well the feeling of being nostalgic for a place that has been fundamentally changed forever.

Five stars no notes.

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Better than I expected. I’ll say Jude law and Nicolas holt both have questionable American accents but I appreciated their efforts. Storyline was super interesting I really hadn’t heard of this entire plot line in American culture before but really messed up to learn about. White supremacists in Washington?? Who would have thought. 

Also reminded me I’m a sucker for red and blue lighting- took me back to my fascination with Drive. Also a great ending to this one. Was weird seeing Jude law in this kind of role- haven’t seen him in like a darker film or role like ever? But I appreciated getting to see this side of his range. Also isn’t Nicolas holt in like everything these days????

I was a bit disappointed. But still a solid movie. It was cool to see the psyche of these two characters develop who are clearly masters at their craft. Watching them chase each other and be stooped at every turn was entertainining nonetheless. I just couldn’t stop thinking the whole time about how for whatever reason they decided not to shoot any scenes with both De Niro and pachino in the same shot. my uncle told me it’s because they hated each other for years but I found out he was wrong but still couldn’t get it out of my head lol. 

I really liked the ending and the lighting in that scene stuck with me. The extra storyline with the step daughter didn’t feel too necessary but clearly helped to extend the plot. Anyway….. heat

Honestly…. So good. I’m shocked I liked it as much as I did because right before watching this I was telling my cousins about how I struggle with comedies because they’re so hit or miss and I don’t do well with cringe humor. And it even feels weird to rate this so high because I never watch comedies but this one had everything. 

I can’t say I’ve watched most of the cop genre movies that are referenced constantly here but I appreciated the many nods to the genre. Simon Peggy’s deadpan serious character was a great foil to all the other incredibly silly characters in this. The comedic timing was soooo perfect as was the actually masterful editing in this. Overall a great comedy and good intro for me to the British comedy genre which I really haven’t seen much of.

Whewwwwww okay…. This had a lot of expectations to live up to and like kinda 20 years of anticipation but I was overall pleasantly surprised. I thought this was a great extension of the gladiator universe albeit  stretched out. It’s hard to do without forcing it to compare to being As powerful as Russell Crowe or Joaquin Phoenix but what can you do.

The real surprise here for me was just how much Denzel Washington shined. His presence and power was deeply felt in every scene he was in. Watching his storyline unfold was definitely the most captivating part of the movie which surprised me because he was totally unrelated to the original characters but nonetheless his storyline felt the most prominent to me. Paul smashed it, also wow his American accent??? But Pedro was in it way less than I had hoped for. Also why werent there more scenes between the two of them???? 🥲

The other big thing was the empowers- ofc phoenix’s film presence can’t even be compared to but having two emporers in this one felt like a tough challange to fully establish both of them as evil enough to do everything they did. Almost wish they had just focused on Quinn instead of the other kid and his silly monkey. lol 

but ok overall a really good extension of the universe and fully captivating movie. It’s hard to live up to the OG but good on them for striking this balance between continuing a cinematic universe while also creating something that felt like enough of its own thing to work as well as it did. 

I appreciated the nod to the original movie at the end but didn’t felt like it hit in the way Scott likely intended it to.

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So like what the actual fuck lol this shit was insane. Overall incredible portrayal of just how horrifying it is to be a woman under constant societal pressure to always look young and beautiful no matter what the cost. I loved how it kept pushing more and more and just when you felt like it was enough, it wasn’t- there’s always more you can do to to be thinner hotter younger. 

I was so impressed by Demi Moore in this- I don’t think I’ve seen her in a role anywhere close to being as demanding as this but she really conveyed that desperation and dark sadness core to the narrative. 

Only thing I would have loved to see is more of these two characters interacting even though I know it wouldn’t make much sense given the premise. These makeup artists completely smashed it out the park too- what twisted mind do you need to have to create a creature like this? 

One of the most horrifying parts for me was the way they used food- really reminded me of how the whale made me feel by contrasting food as this essential part of human to feel like something so repulsive and twisted. I never watch body horror stuff so it definitely sat with me more than I’m used to. Some of these images in my head now lowkey have kind of made it hard to sleep 

Wild commentary. Too real. Also I want to see how the blood hose was made

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• Close
• Past Lives
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Call Me by Your Name
• Her
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• Notting Hill