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professional hater, and if you don't like it... i'm sorry and can we still be friends
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National Anthem 2023
tbh... I'm just going to start avoiding festival circuit darlings that feature trans characters until someone else confirms for me that it isn't a story that's kicked off by the main character being a chaser. Sorry, I know it's easier to get a tip of the hat to your movie if you have a trans actress as a love interest in it... But maybe having a trans writer/director would be cooler. idk
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Amadeus 1984
RIP Salieri, you would've loved/deeply resented The Cure
Real review: an all time great period piece. Liked it a whole lot at home on the TV; absolutely love it in a theater. All of the set and costume design, none of the relying on it as the sole justification for the movie existing. Just good old fashioned solid story telling combined with some gorgeous music. So influential, yet still not cliche. A magnum opus.
Also, low-key... Jeffrey Jones ate this up. Obviously some great acting from all the main cast, but JJ killed his line delivery every time. "Too many notes." So true bestie.
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The Last Duel 2021
A list of observations:
The device of showing different perspectives would have been interesting if not for being undercut by the film determining which truth was the objective one.
Showing Jodie Comer's tear-stricken face as the same repeated intercut shot between the two dudes fighting doesn't effectively stop a film that's meant to be about how men make everything about themselves from having its climax center... on the men. It felt memeable at a certain point.
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I Saw the TV Glow 2024
Captures a feeling so well that I simply have to think that everyone during the q+a asking what different things meant simply have not experienced that feeling. And good for them!
However, I'm a 27 year old neurodivergent trans woman who grew up in the suburbs, and I found this gutwrenching and delightful at the same time. Shame (and melancholy) as a horror villain that keeps you from a parallel life that should be yours--that is already yours--if you could…
