Merrick Monroe

Merrick Monroe

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  • Fair Play

    ★★★

  • Elvira, Mistress of the Dark

    ★★★★

  • Victor Frankenstein

    ★★★

  • The Collector

    ★★★★

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  • Fair Play

    Fair Play

    ★★★

    A great movie to watch if you’ve ever been a woman with a successful career, if you’ve ever worked with men, or if you’ve ever dated cishet men. All three? Buckle up because you know how this one goes! Overall slow to get to the point, but in the same insidious way that narcissistic babymen leach poison into everything they touch. Without spoiling anything, I will say that the ending was… satisfying.

  • Hellbender

    Hellbender

    ★★★½

    A 100% accurate* depiction of the relationship between single mothers and only-child teenage daughters. What the film lacks in budget it makes up for in elegantly simple cinematography and authentic performances. 
    (* if you happen to be descended from a long line of witches with supernatural powers. Mortal women raised in a similar situation/environment will still find plenty to relate to.)

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  • Crimes of the Future

    Crimes of the Future

    ★★★★★

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

    This was the first movie in some time that I immediately wanted to rewatch... which I ended up doing two days later after I had some time to ruminate on my initial viewing. I'm honestly not sure how to review this movie beyond that. "Surgery is the new sex" has been carved permanently into my brain; in a world where only a lucky few experience pain but only in their sleep, why wouldn't surgery become the new sex? The ultimate…

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