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  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★

  • Thor: Love and Thunder

  • Ambulance

    ★★★★★

  • Tyler Perry's A Madea Homecoming

    ★★★

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  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★

    hmm, idk. like the police investigating itself and finding nothing wrong Film investigating itself and going "dont worry it was just nihilism 👍" seems a little suspect. idk if this is even like thematically relevant for folks anymore cuz millenials and zoomers arent nihilist theyre broke and underemployed lmao. and really fucking gay. which is prob the most specific topic here, but tying that in with Asianness is idk a lil clumsy. plus i think the mindset these days is…

  • Thor: Love and Thunder

    Thor: Love and Thunder

    dawg i fucking hated this. some capeshit is tolerable as like exemplars of convention or as shared objects of attention but this was miserable and annoying beyond repair. at least thor 2 was quiet, this shit wont ever shut the fuck up with Wakiti's Top 40 record scratches and unfunny jokes. like legit he may be the least funny creative i have ever seen, bro has zero wit, timing, provocation, conviction, brevity, anything at all. was in a theater of…

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  • Haibane Renmei

    Haibane Renmei

    ★★★★½

    This anime is fucking crazy. Don't let the simple aesthetic and comfy-atmosphere fool you; this is every bit as complex and emotionally acute as Lain, Texhnolyze, and the rest of the Ueda coalition works. The central paradox here, the Circle of Sin (one who recognizes his own sin has no sin), is so cleverly woven into not only how the characters relate to themselves and others, but also their socioeconomic status, their mythology, and even their metaphysical system that I…

  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

    Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

    ★★★★★

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

    Still the GOAT. I'm in the middle of a re-watch with some folks that have never seen the series or movie before (can you believe it?) so I'll give this a more serious and less-scattered shake when we get around to it, but on my own personal annual viewing there is a fair bit of tricks I missed on previous watches. In particular the train motif was something I did not pay attention to in the past; everyone mentions the…