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  I'm Thinking of Ending Things 2020

  ★★★★ Rewatched 13 Mar 2025 15

  I don’t like thinking about box office. I don’t like thinking about commercial viability. All those things that get put into your head, that turn you into some kind of numbskull and unable to do the thing that’s important. I want to be rid of it. I’m done with it. It’s not important to me. I understand that now. And the fact that I don’t care anymore, it makes it easier, because I can do the work if I get…

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  Bad Things 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Jun 2023 14

  Bad Things is about wanting to destroy the part of yourself that wants to destroy you. Its insufferable characterization is what was missing for me in The Worst Person in the World—the self-loathing self-aware shittiness of a liar, a cheater, someone who’s lost their way but knows it, & can’t make a good decision stick. It’s not attractive or sympathetic or endearing. It’s ugly. 

  Maybe the movie’s not a great horror flick with plot holes, meandering bits, & inconsistencies, but I do know…

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  Ordinary People 1980

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 24 Mar 2025 11

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  Adolescence 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025 17

  Her weakness made her more gettable, is your theory?

  Don’t you like me, then? What do you think of me? Not that I fancy you, just like you as a person. Were you popular? I bet you were. How popular were you? You’re posh, aren’t ya. You don’t know what I’m talking about, do ya. 

  How do you feel about women? How do you feel men feel about women? 80% of women like 20% of men; is that true? Do you believe that’s true?

  It wasn’t a proper fight. 

  What does this emoji mean, Jamie?

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  Maestro 2023

  ★★ Watched 17 Dec 2023 59

  Maestro has the emotional intelligence of a 12-year-old. Subtle as a sledgehammer. She looks over, he’s gripping another man’s hand, the camera eases in. She’s jealous, she’s livid, she’s had enough. She drops his LB monogrammed slippers on the floor in the other room ‘cause, gasp! Guess who’s exiled to that couch again tonight, Lenny.

  Sorry, Bradley. Plop this atop the Mank Eyes of Tammy Faye Being the Ricardos dirty laundry heap. Actors Acting, nothing nuanced to say. Two and a half hour time-suck drag, like overhearing a gossipy coworker complain about their marital problems using kindergarten terms. Snooze.

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  White Palace 1990

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Apr 2022 40

  There’s an early Sex and the City episode around the idea that we’ve all been with someone we wouldn’t introduce to our friends. The person doesn’t fit the bill. Too young, too old, too rich, too poor, too different, too ______. Fill in the blank. For Carrie & the gang, it’s not super deep or even insightful social commentary. It’s just this person does it for me, but nobody I know would understand, and that’s that. Fact of life. Have fun…