Sydney🚀 has written 173 reviews for films during 2021.
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Free Guy 2021
Everyone is talking about how Jeremy Jahns said this movie is “a better Matrix Resurrections than Matrix Resurrections” but not how Shawn Levy did this instead of giving us Night at the Museum 4
For such a unique premise, this felt disappointingly familiar and predictable. I could compare it to a lot of things. Sometimes funny, sometimes inventive, sometimes visually interesting. Jodie Comer is the cutest and most talented human.
Also this was filmed in Boston RIGHT before I moved to the city and I flipped a shit seeing all the scenes like a T stop from where I live
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Just Friends 2005
Dad says: “jeez this movie is uncomfortable” you’re telling me pal
I’d never seen this all the way through before, once you look past all the isms of the early 2000s it’s actually pretty funny. Anna Faris stays one of the most underrated comedic actresses of all time
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Don't Look Up 2021
Did not think I would have watched this 3 times by now but here we are lmao. I like it more each time, for different reasons, so I am at a complete loss on how I feel about this film. I don’t care one way or another about Adam McKay and he seems earnest in his execution. I truly think some things in this film are genius. Others, eye rolling. The second time I watched it, the last scene made me…
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Magnolia 1999
“I really do have love to give, I just don't know where to put it.”
Alternatively:
“Respect the cock. Tame the cunt.”I don’t really believe we have free will. Not in the way that we can’t make our own decisions, but that those decisions are inevitably and invariably informed by trauma we didn’t ask for, but have to navigate anyways. Sometimes it gets the best of us, but we wouldn’t be human if it didn’t. It’s almost comforting to…
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The Last Duel 2021
Not as immediately shocking the second time around, but still worth it to pick up on the small details. I love this movie enough to make up for all the awards it will not get😌
Also now confirmed to be one of those movies that’s a must-see in theaters for the intensity but a must-watch at home for the subtitles. Oh well.
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Love Actually 2003
Our Christmas tradish! Could not possibly pick a favorite scene or quote. Just cannot believe Thomas Brodie-Sangster was THIRTEEN YEARS OLD WHEN THIS CAME OUT. Keira Knightley is only five years older than him. And he hasn’t aged a day since.
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It's a Wonderful Life 1946
First time ever watching! Beautiful direction, beautiful ending, beautiful performances and beautiful Clarence. The most cathartic of tears.
It really is a wonderful life :’) love you all with my entire heart, happy holidays and merry xmas to all who are celebrating tomorrow!! ❤️🔔 -
American Psycho 2000
I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?
Adapted/directed by a genius female pair and one of the funniest movies of all time. The blows are coming from all directions as Harron and Turner poke fun at male vanity through Bateman and society through their reaction to him. There are so many glorious layers to this. The finance bro hater and criminology major in me will always reel at the fact that Patrick, despite his greatest efforts,…
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Don't Look Up 2021
It’s not good when real life is funnier than your comedic commentary on it, but it’s a hard line to beat to be fair.
I like Adam McKay and I enjoyed this but I agree with those who think he’s taking himself too seriously. This can’t figure out whether it’s trying to be an apocalyptic drama/straight faced satire or a spoof. Don’t get me wrong, I am proudly in the choir, but the preaching feels too much like it was…
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The Matrix Resurrections 2021
The divisiveness of this film is happening before our very eyes, which is the only realistic outcome when such a beloved and influential franchise gets a reboot into the world of 2021. It’s a hard pill to swallow (ha), but The Matrix was destined to never be left alone, and it might be the perfect tool to simultaneously contribute to and critique the current blockbuster landscape.
I think it’s unfair to expect a fourth film to tread entirely new ground,…
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