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Actual People 2021
I definitely should not think too much about why these movies about people trying to figure out what to do with their lives after college speak so deeply to me at age 43.
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Dream Scenario 2023
This really tanks hard once it gets to the cancel culture stuff. I thought that part would be more allegorical, but no, it's just a bunch of recycled social media talking points that come across as especially disingenuous when applied to this metaphysical situation. The first half is a lot of unfocused weirdness, but at least it's entertaining and unpredictable. The final act is like a Daily Wire version of a Charlie Kaufman movie.
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Auntie Mame 1958
This is a whole lot of too much, and it really wore me out long before it ended. I've only seen Rosalind Russell in a handful of 1930s/1940s roles, and this is like all of her performances from that era added together. It's both stagey in its presentation and sitcom-like in its episodic structure, and it eventually just collapses, although there's some enjoyable wit along the way. I'm not entirely anti-Mame but I wouldn't say I'm exactly pro-Mame either.
