So here I am having persisted through this dull dramedy with a dash of casual incest when I look up the late director Israel Horovitz...and I realize he's the playwright that the New York Times wrote about when nine women accused him of sexual assault or harassment. His son, Bestie Boys member Adam Horovitz, stood behind the women while Heather Graham also went public with her own claims that the director made advances to her in the late 1980s. No,…
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Don't Look Up 2021
So you're telling me a presidential address might interrupt me enjoying Too Hot to Handle on Netflix?
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Home Sweet Home Alone 2021
I can't understate how icky it feels to watch Disney produce a film where the "robbers" of past entries are replaced by a financially strapped couple simply trying to retrieve a rare, valuable toy doll that was stolen from them in hopes it'll keep them from losing their home.
The film levels punishment on them early on by presenting them as well-intentioned idiots who repeatedly injure themselves through their own stupidity. In his case, it all starts because the husband…
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The Matrix Reloaded 2003
Am I the only one who was totally lost during the upside-down cliffhanger reveal at the end?
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The Bedroom Window 1987
The literal high-fiving rape culture that lingers throughout this film, mostly unaddressed, is truly startling, partly because the viewer has forgotten about much of it by the time the credits roll.
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After Blue (Dirty Paradise) 2021
"You shaved Kate Bush an hour ago."
Two hours into this visual palindrome that line is uttered. And it's true. Kate Bush was shaved like a whole hour earlier. And yet it doesn't even matter. Shave her again. See if I care!
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The Guilty 2021
They should've had breakdancers filling all that empty square footage in the dispatch room.