Another Round is very great. Mads is amazing. One of best of the year.


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Why thank the lord?


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Promising Young Woman - I didn't like this! It's a failure of high-art exploitation. Amateur, flat and very "film school," uncertain with what it wants to say and even less certain how to tell it. Too much of it is an exercise in unmotivated style. So many angles felt random, and so many scenes bla...

This is great! And with genuine shades of Lynch. On the road to being some of my favorite in the MCU.


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Yeah. CDPR is getting sued because they're a publicly traded company and misled both the public and their own investors. Poland's Securities and Exchange Commission is probably building a case against them right now as well. It's essentially identical to this situation, but CDPR was misleading via t...

i think if this game hadn't been released during covid the backlash wouldn't be as strong cause everyone is equal parts nuts and bored rn Honestly man, maybe a bit but in general I don't think so. It's just a broken game that didn't deliver on a lot of what it promised, even months before release. ...

Ya'll gotta watch

1.) Beanpole
2.) The Assistant
3.) Collectiv
4.) First Cow (the best)
5.) more Small Axe
6.) Emma

I have much to catch up on myself before I publish a final top 10. Promising Young Woman, One Night in Miami, Another Round, etc. We've just been busy.


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David O Russell's a piece of shit and probably shouldn't be working, but his movies net actors nominations and thus they want to work with him. As for American Hustle, I know it has a reputation for 'just doing Scorsese' but it's not. Stylistically yes, a bit, but the actual content is very differen...

sorry how is american hustle a 'pointless' film again


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Well you can propose he had no moral choice, but he basically said "I won't work for you if Hamada is there" and they were like "okay." His framing makes it sound retaliatory and it wasn't. Hence, it reads to me as disingenuous even if I 100% believe his accusations are real. Am I wrong here? I don'...