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  • Love Lies Bleeding


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    Read time:

    1–2 minutes
    Love Lies Bleeding
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    The gays deserve better. What started as a sweet and steamy retro lesbian U-Haul romance story quickly devolved into soap opera level twists and turns in the criminal thriller plot. I think the second half was supposed to be shocking,…

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  • Severance S01


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    Read time:

    6–9 minutes
    Severance S01
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    Is this praxis? It’s good enough for me. This is a labor movement story, through and through, and it’s good at what it’s doing. You feel for the workers’ predicament—it’s torturous—and are naturally led to consider what parallels can be…

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  • Aftersun


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    Read time:

    2–3 minutes
    Aftersun
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    An extremely beautiful film, Aftersun is a slow, melancholic, and nostalgic story on childhood, fatherhood, depression, and our memories of the important people in our lives. Every scene felt extremely relatable to me, with much of the film focused on simply…

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  • Emily the Criminal


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    Read time:

    2–4 minutes
    Emily the Criminal
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    Allow me to be a hater for a moment. This is slop. A “simulacrum of a movie” is how my friend described it. It certainly has all the parts of a movie, but it’s not clear the writer-director actually knew…

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  • Everything Everywhere All at Once


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    Read time:

    1–2 minutes
    Everything Everywhere All at Once
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    For a movie that truly values sincerity, why must it dangle keys in my face as if I’m a baby that needs to be kept entertained? A good story, with a good idea for telling it, is bogged down by…

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  • Avatar: The Way of Water


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    Read time:

    19–29 minutes
    Avatar: The Way of Water
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    Avatar: The Way of Water whips ass—no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Unless you really disliked the first movie, go see it on the biggest screen you can. See it not simply for the visuals (though it does look…

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  • The Banshees of Inisherin


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    Read time:

    2–3 minutes
    The Banshees of Inisherin
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    An intensely sad but darkly funny contemplation of what the point of all this is, the various ways we can try to feel satisfied in life, and how we should treat one another. It was deeply moving. I’d highly recommend…

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  • In Brief — Decision to Leave


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    Read time:

    1–2 minutes
    In Brief — Decision to Leave
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    Decision to Leave was immediately gripping. I found myself thinking “oh fuck yes” several times, as I was served deliciously weird and unique characters, each scene leaving me more and more intrigued on what everyone’s deal is, and what this…

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  • Better Call Saul


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    Read time:

    4–6 minutes
    Better Call Saul
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    Better Call Saul is a masterfully executed tale of social order, crime, and ennui. If you haven’t seen it yet, you’re doing yourself a disservice. While the series stands on its own and does not necessarily need to be compared…

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  • In Brief — Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery


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    Read time:

    1–2 minutes
    In Brief — Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
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    Glass Onion is a fun movie, but the mystery began to seem less and less clever the farther I walked home from the theater. Benoit Blanc is an incredibly charismatic character (I could probably watch Daniel Craig do that for…

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