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Honestly, good for her, I hope she's having a nice holiday season.

The photography and production design are ace, but all the effects overliteralize the threat early on, which ends up being an entire Gashlycrumb Tinies of personal demons.

This all seems condescending and reductive. Maybe let's don't.

Women hunting down Nice Guys and auctioning them off to the highest bidder—this is the future feminist ancaps want. You can stop this. Nationalize all men.

That said, I do wish the film had steered its premise toward a more coherent allegory instead of repeating the same joke about how women be applying makeup.

On the surface it's a tense thriller about a woman struggling to assert herself in the presence of her husband, but if you look closely it's also a collection of poorly constructed allegories pandering to the worst aspects of Internet cinephilia.

I Am Michael has received a lot of attention for the questions it raises about the corners of queer identity. But ultimately, it wants to focus on the characters and let them tell their own stories.

Michael's story spans a series of relationships, each of which is being written off by one partner or another. He grapples with Serious Issues and explains his Deep Thoughts, but the other characters rarely have a chance to respond. The film manages to be respectful of its characters but sinks itself by devoting so much time to a tedious lead.