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Black Swan 2010
this is womanhood this is lack of womanhood this is the performance of femininity for men only to break yourself down over and over again for the sake of validation this is mommy issues this is allowing others to define your sense of self until you lose it this is being sexy this is sapphic this is perfect IT WAS PERFECT AND I CANNOT BELIEVE IT WAS WRITTEN BY A MAN!!!!!
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The Green Knight 2021
Tell me a tale of thyself that I might know thee
why do you seek greatness, is not goodness enough?
lots and LOTS going on here. might need to watch the last 30min 10 more times to get a grasp. explores lots of questions of honor and vulnerability and the ways we live out and embark on the ideals we sign our names to. would be a great double feature with Last Temptation of Christ because they are 80% the same movie
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Zola 2020
“then who you fuck with?”
“i fuck with jesus, my lord and savior.”
a modern masterpiecethere is a way this story could have been told (and would have been told in lesser hands [james franco was attached to direct at one point, the bullet we dodged is gargantuan]) and it’s completely avoided here. what bravo does instead is create this softly lit world that feels like a fairytale, one growing more twisted by the second. everything about zola the…
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Zola 2020
zola is a treat. zola is also the first film to dazzle from inside a cellphone's interface. bravo's sounds and images—candy-sweet, cyanide-laced—impart the feeling of being extremely online. many have tried this; it's possible only bravo has succeeded
what lead us online are our bodies: sumptuous, various, fraught. we need answers. bravo and harris' screenplay cuts to the chase of what i can only call Instamacy: bonds forged in the fire of follow-back identification—ridiculous, fabulous, and doomed
unforgettable: zola, in…
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Hairspray 1988
listen... as a southeast baltimore girlie there is absolutely NO WAY i can rate this objectively. tracy’s highschool is across the street from the shoprite i went to as a child. the parkville vfw is two minutes down the street from my elementary school. how could i possibly seriously rate something that i feel like i was raised in
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We Are Who We Are 2020
Luca Guadagnino directing Jack Dylan Grazer: ahh sì, but can you do it more like Timothée Chalamet???
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Pieces of a Woman 2020
this felt like if a dog with superhuman intelligence wrote a movie about how they felt humans experience grief
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