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  Steel Magnolias 1989

  ★★★★½ Watched by Bean 17 Jun 2022

  i don’t think i’ve ever seen a movie characterize and move its plot exclusively through banter and gossip this much and still hit like wow the girls who get it get it

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  Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022

  ★★★½ Rewatched by Bean 24 May 2022

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Okay bitches, strap in because today I'm not going to be reviewing this film. Instead, we're going to be playing my favorite game-- waffling about the MCU script until I fix it. Today's victim, a movie I just watched for the second time and spent that entire last half of the runtime ruminating about why the script was not scripting. Alright, whatever. Michael Waldron, I hope you're reading this.

  
  Really, the first time I watched this movie the only real…

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  Dear Evan Hansen 2021

  ½ Watched by Bean 22 Sep 2021

  I've hated this musical for about five years now, so strap in lads, because this is going to be a long one. Unfortunately, I believe that no matter how outwardly terrible something is, it will always be worth engaging with on a thoughtful critical level, so this will be, like, an actual review.

  This thing is a total trainwreck. Nearly every decision they made in adapting it only worked to make the musical worse. That's good for me, because in…

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  Spin 2021

  ★★★★ Watched by Bean 18 Aug 2021

  “you will fill the world with so much music that it will crush him”

  an extra half a star just because of feminism and i know this was commentary on British colonialism yeaaaa destroy that white boy!

  a lot of teen movies w asian representation will paint their culture out to be oppressive or whatever with a white savior so it was SO nice when this didn’t fall into that trap. the main character has such a respect and admiration…