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  Licorice Pizza 2021

  Rewatched by Zak 10 Aug 2022

  Harriet Sansom Harris literally telling Alana that she got that dawg in her

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  Thirteen Lives 2022

  Watched by Zak 08 Aug 2022

  pretty good! Viggo looks a lot like Saul Tenser in this, even in the wetsuit.

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  Jojo Rabbit 2019

  Watched by Zak 02 Nov 2019 2

  *cracks fingers*

  So, JOJO RABBIT...

  - the movie opens by conflating actual Nazism, which, ya know, resulted in the murder of at least 11 million people, with Beatlemania. And somehow that’s not even the film’s low point.
  - the movie bills itself as an “anti-hate satire” but there isn’t really any satire, and it doesn’t even believe true hate is a thing. All of the movie’s jokes about Nazis amount to “lol look how dumb these people are”. In the…

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  Uncut Gems 2019

  Rewatched by Zak 18 Dec 2019

  So much of this film’s tension is elevated by the meltdowns happening in public, or at least adjacent to the public. That’s what makes the sound mix so effective- the idea that Howard is having his life slip away from him in plain sight of not just the people close to him but random strangers as well. What’s the point of steeping your film so deeply in its urban atmosphere if you’re not gonna take advantage of it? Howard is perpetually…