Blonde isn’t easy to watch. It grotesquely perverts the life of a public icon under the guise of delving into her psyche — and yet accomplishes it by repeatedly violating her. I went into the film firmly expecting fantasy, and even with expectations, Blonde really is a string of inconceivable hardships. It portrays tragedy after tragedy, most of them exaggerated or fabricated. By including and retroactively exploring false examples of trauma, Blonde reveals the difficulty with displaying such scenes: audiences…

Lol I cannot even BEGIN to tell you how beyond fucking exhausted I am by the MCU discourse (and I’m just as critical as everyone else of them lately) so I’ll do my best to keep this brief, but: I had fun!

Sure, it’s Ragnarok-lite, and it’s not quite as good (it’s unexpectedly far more emotional, but Ragnarok’s humor hit harder, and it was better paced too, as this suffers from being the two-hour cut of a four-hour film), but…

One thing y’all have to know about me is that I’m a straight-up SUCKER for old-fashioned studio romcoms (Pretty Woman! While You Were Sleeping! My Best Friend’s Wedding! 10 Things I Hate About You! Hitch! The Proposal! Pretty much everything Nancy Meyers has ever made!) and, alongside my cinematic mothers Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Lopez is pretty much one of the undisputed ICONS of this genre (The Wedding Planner! Maid in Manhattan! Monster-in-Law!) so I was in the…

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better than the crimes of grindelwald! LOVED the few scenes we got at hogwarts! loved getting to see a little bit of hogsmeade again! can't get enough of that cute little niffler and the little twig guy!! so so cute!!

but overall pretty bored of this franchise and story! please warner brothers just give us another wizarding world franchise or a…

Stranger at the Gate is good at telling the story it wants to tell — unfortunately it opts for a manipulative that treads a thin line between hopefulness and annihilation.

Parts of it feel powerful: the effects of PTSD, the overwhelming kindness of humanity, the power of community, and so on. It isn’t enough to shake off the scummy feeling it left me with.

It’s designed to make you feel sympathy for someone who almost became a mass murderer,…