Tag: 2020 film
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December 2020 Film Round-Up
With this post, I finally stop talking about 2020 in film, something I feel like I’ve been doing non-stop for weeks. I watched quite a bit in December, mostly as an incentive to catch up on as many anticipated releases in 2020 as I could so I make the most informed list at the end…
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Promising Young Woman (2020) Review
Promising Young Woman is the directorial debut of actress and writer Emerald Fennell, who you may mostly know for spearheading the second season of BBC‘s hit show Killing Eve, or perhaps for playing Camilla in the latest offerings of The Crown. Either way, Fennell has fully established herself as a writer/director to watch out for…
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One Night in Miami (2020) Review – London Film Festival
On paper, One Night in Miami sounds like one of those films that you would conjure up in a dizzying daydream, the cinematic equivalent of asking what it would be like to be a fly on the wall in any room in history. The film, written by Kemp Powers based off his own play of…
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020) Review
I’m Thinking of Ending Things is Charlie Kaufman’s highly-anticipated third directorial effort, following 2008’s existential nightmare Synecdoche, New York and 2015’s stop-motion psychology comedy Anomalisa. It follows a woman (Jessie Buckley) and her boyfriend (Jesse Plemons) who take a trip to visit his parents (David Thewlis & Toni Collette). It is based on the novel…
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Tenet (2020) Review
I want to preface this by explaining some important rules. Tenets, if you will. This is both a spoiler-free and spoiler-filled review. As signposted below, the first section will be a spoiler-free elucidation of my general thoughts and where it stands in Nolan’s filmography for me. Then, for those who have seen the film already,…
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The Kissing Booth 2 – Review
I’m assuming if you’re reading this you’re either a diehard supporter of this blog, in which case congratulations on your excellent taste or you’re planning to watch/have watched The Kissing Booth 2, in which case also congratulations on your excellent taste. Just kidding, you should probably rethink that decision. The Kissing Booth 2 (2020) was…
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Palm Springs (2020): Review
As we reach a point in the pandemic where the industry is starting to consider what it would take to release films theatrically again, all eyes seem to be pointing towards the year’s big blockbusters to light the beacon and lead us back into those hallowed auditoriums with our ridiculously-portioned popcorn and drinks the size…
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How To Build A Girl (2020) Review
It’s simple. I see Beanie Feldstein, I watch. I pretty much knew nothing about this film besides that fact that Beanie was in it and that adorable poster of her in the top hat. That was more than enough to sell me and it was exactly what I signed up for. How To Build A…
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The Half Of It (2020) Review
Premise: When a well-meaning but inexpressive jock asks her to write a love letter to his crush, straight-A student Ellie Chu ends up discovering a lot about herself, love, and life itself. These nice Netflix originals in the YA genre have been hit and miss with me so far, at least out of the ones…
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Horse Girl (2020): A Brief Review
Now that awards season is behind us and Parasite officially a Best Picture winner, I can get back to doing what I started this blog to do: reviewing movies. My first official review of a 2020 release is for Jeff Baena’s Horse Girl, which premiered at Sundance before finding its home on Netflix. I didn’t…
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