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  TÁR 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Oct 2022 10

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

  femme whiplash 😍

  EDIT to say:

  In my work meeting this week, I found myself heartily endorsing TÁR — "Oh, I loved TÁR. Really good." A coworker who hadn't seen it piped up — "oh yeah, isn't that the anti-Me Too movie?" The line hits well. I can understand the allure of the easy summary. A movie about a predatory lesbian written and directed by a white man, starring a magnificent performance by a straight A-list actress whose best performance…

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  High School Musical 3: Senior Year 2008

  Watched 24 Oct 2008

  found this movie ticket on the ground in my childhood closet — saw this in theaters with my friend kyra and acted like i was, at 14, way too sophisticated to be there. same school year i read all the twilight books as “teen girl research,” purely from a sociological standpoint. absolutely mortified to be a teen girl.

Recent reviews

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  Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 May 2023 1

  wait… the best one???

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  BlackBerry 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 20 May 2023

  thank you canada!!! glenn howerton is so electric and full of pathos, and i really dig what jay baruchel’s doing too. charming and interesting and well cast enough that you can forgive some of its sillier indulgences. good soundtrack! matt johnson you have gained a fan (it’s me).

Popular reviews

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  Hairspray 2007

  ★★★★ Added 4

  this is what glee thinks it is

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  Speed 1994

  ★★★ Watched 12 Apr 2021

  most realistic la plot point is that they keep almost dying because the city can’t finish transit and infrastructure projects on time