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Blink Twice
(2024)
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Victoria Alexander
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A confident directorial debut by Kravitz but I’ll accept the wrath by saying the truth: why did Kravitz make every cast member intentionally ugly? So no one can take anything away from her star or her shadow presence as director?
Posted Sep 23, 2024
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Speak No Evil
(2024)
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Victoria Alexander
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Terrific! This is the movie to see. McAvoy, you are September’s movie boyfriend. Director Watkins has the audience yelling and cleverly brings a sly homoerotic element that adds a gnarly subtext that infiltrates the carnage.
Posted Sep 16, 2024
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
(2024)
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Victoria Alexander
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I’m looking forward to GONE WITH THE WIND 2, CITIZEN KANE 2 and SOME LIKE IT HOT starring Taylor Swift. But please no OCEAN’S 14.
Posted Sep 07, 2024
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A Quiet Place: Day One
(2024)
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Victoria Alexander
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I must urge the Academy Awards to make a new category: Best Performance by an Animal. This is a category that has been sadly ignored. There are a lot of working animals who deserve recognition for helping assist a star build their character.
Posted Aug 30, 2024
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Alien: Romulus
(2024)
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Victoria Alexander
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Were are the scientists of the franchise? A group of homeless, orphan teenagers are stuck on a hellhole planet’s colony. They decide to capture ROMULUS, an abandoned ship. Except for the charisma-free, faceless cast, it is a terrific movie.
Posted Aug 25, 2024
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Twisters
(2024)
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Victoria Alexander
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Zero charisma between Edgar-Jones and Powell. Edgar-Jones doesn’t even give Hollywood’s newest sexy heartthrob a look. Fragile Edgar-Jones single-handedly saves a town from disaster as limping Powell stays safe in a shelter.
Posted Jul 19, 2024
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Sorry/Not Sorry
(2023)
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Victoria Alexander
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We all know the scandal but in today’s climate of P. Diddy and Chris D’Elia, C.K. never forced sex on anyone. Creepy yes, but walk away.
Posted Jul 14, 2024
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Challengers
(2024)
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Victoria Alexander
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It is an intense decades-long love affair between two men. Zendaya plays the strict, disapproving mommy keeping them apart. It’s so obvious, she acknowledges it several times.
Posted Jun 14, 2024
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Monkey Man
(2024)
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Victoria Alexander
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Terrific. Has its own feel, look, texture and a bravado performance by the director/star. The India locale and theme is original with high, brutal action that makes Patel a serious contender in the John Wick genre.
Posted Apr 07, 2024
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Road House
(2024)
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Victoria Alexander
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Bravo! McGregor makes an auspicious entrance. He’s a movie star now. Gyllenhaal displays a wry humor and a strong dominance as the “done that” bouncer. Gyllenhaal has found his buddy movie co-star. I have one constantly overused movie trope complaint.
Posted Mar 27, 2024
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Dune: Part Two
(2024)
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Victoria Alexander
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Yes, it is a gorgeous production but not a masterpiece. I’ll be brave and say it: Walken is a feeble lopsided emperor, Bardem is over-acting in his own movie and Bautista’s emotional decimal is higher than everyone else. Only Butler ignites the movie.
Posted Feb 23, 2024
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Priscilla
(2023)
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Victoria Alexander
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Keeps the myth alive of a virgin and a hillbilly. Coppola has no insight. Maybe it was just a paid gig. It has no director’s vision, point of view, or interpretation. It’s a bore.
Posted Dec 08, 2023
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Napoleon
(2023)
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Victoria Alexander
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Napoleon was a weepy, masochist, a so-so general who was forced to be emperor. He loved only one woman and cried when he divorced her. He wanted Josephine instead of an heir for the Bonaparte dynasty. France will not forgive Ridley Scott for the insult.
Posted Nov 27, 2023
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Poor Things
(2023)
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Victoria Alexander
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Astonishing, breathtaking, a visual masterpiece. Bella transcends Barbie. She is the new female archetype. A sublime creature. Stone is miraculous! Ruffalo will never surpass this performance. All awards must go to this best picture of the last ten years.
Posted Nov 13, 2023
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May December
(2023)
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Victoria Alexander
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Terrific, riveting but ignores the fact that women can sense a teenage boy’s strong sexual pheromones and their flattering interest is an overwhelming narcotic. And this is why women are still being arrested for sex with teenage boys.
Posted Nov 12, 2023
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The Killer
(2023)
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Victoria Alexander
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Pure provocative tension. Nothing but stress-producing filmmaking. Fincher’s masterful triumphant is one of the year’s best films. No sign of pink, philosophical regrets, mean white men or a conflicted sex life.
Posted Oct 28, 2023
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Killers of the Flower Moon
(2023)
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Victoria Alexander
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Scorsese intentionally strips the film of any traces of his style. It appears that DiCaprio structured his performance to show his character suffered being evil. The film’s length should be praised instead of criticized.
Posted Oct 14, 2023
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The Exorcist: Believer
(2023)
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Victoria Alexander
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They threw out the playbook. The iconic original had one thing not easily achieved- MENACE. It was more important then the head spinning.
Posted Oct 07, 2023
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter
(2023)
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Victoria Alexander
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A perfect addition to the Dracula oeuvre. He’s at the top of the hierarchy of monsters and we wanted to see what happened on Dracula’s journey to London.
Posted Aug 11, 2023
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Oppenheimer
(2023)
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Victoria Alexander
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Finally, Robert Downey, Jr. dazzles. Matt Damon gives a strong performance. It is fascinating. I knew Dr. Edward Teller and he referenced the bombing of Hiroshima when replying to a question I asked him. See photo.
Posted Jul 21, 2023
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
(2023)
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Victoria Alexander
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The most emotional of the franchise and tops itself while routed in reality. How are superheroes going to transcend this?
Posted Jul 12, 2023
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Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
(2023)
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Victoria Alexander
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Ritchie did not have to put his name in the title of the strongest, most impressive film of his career. It’s a defining showcase that liberates him from his genre. It is Gyllenhaal’s most assured role. A highly realistic war film.
Posted Jun 25, 2023
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The Flash
(2023)
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Victoria Alexander
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The first superhero with chest hair. Miller is terrific. The film is fun and good. What happened to Christian Bale, Val Kilmer and shamefully, why ignore the 21ST Century’s Superman, Henry Cavill?
Posted Jun 25, 2023
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The Stroll
(2023)
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Victoria Alexander
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Brings a unique perspective to the transgender women of color who formed a “community” working “The Stroll.”
Posted Jun 25, 2023
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John Wick: Chapter 4
(2023)
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Victoria Alexander
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A triumph of excess and brilliant artistry of weaponry. Sensational and who will top Wick’s high body count now? I want more and demand Wick fans to boycott all Reeves’s movies if he refuses to do Chapter 5,6,7 and 8.
Posted Mar 22, 2023
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Creed III
(2023)
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Victoria Alexander
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I’m a big boxing fan and director Jordan delivers. He also gives Jonathan Majors a startling, overwhelming presence. Majors is the reason to see CREED lll. The fight scenes are amazing.
Posted Mar 09, 2023
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Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania
(2023)
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Victoria Alexander
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A disastrous mess with the Ant population expanding. Even the family gardener has a suit which means Scott Lang’s role is reduced to carrying everybody’s luggage.
Posted Mar 08, 2023
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The Umbrella Men
(2022)
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Victoria Alexander
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A charming South African bank heist with a very appealing cast of characters.
Posted Dec 21, 2022
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Pearl
(2022)
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Victoria Alexander
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Redefines the genre showing that horror can happen in unlikely bright places. Mia Goth’s well deserved starring role.
Posted Dec 05, 2022
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Ticket to Paradise
(2022)
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Victoria Alexander
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America can raise a sigh of relief: Clooney and Roberts are back as a bitchy divorced couple. Clooney is adorable and Roberts has the worst clothes a star has ever worn. Her archenemy dressed her.
Posted Dec 05, 2022
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Smile
(2022)
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Victoria Alexander
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I watched the entire movie through my fingers. Starring Sosie Bacon her constant panic is operatic. She was terrifying in her out-of-control hysteria.
Posted Dec 05, 2022
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White Noise
(2022)
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Victoria Alexander
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Sitting through this made me hate movies. Torturous. A movie just strolling through the isles of an A&P would have been better than this.
Posted Dec 05, 2022
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Bullet Train
(2022)
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Victoria Alexander
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If he wants it, Pitt finally has his franchise. It’s ruthless, cleverly bloody and filled with David Leitch’s Atomic Blonde violent choreography. Mega-star Pitt lets co-star Taylor-Johnson display all the movie’s sex in an expensive suit.
Posted Aug 13, 2022
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Nope
(2022)
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Victoria Alexander
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Kaluuya is clinically depressed and his sister is annoying. Peele fails to bring to the UFO genre a satisfying story. A ridiculous ending.
Posted Jul 21, 2022
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Thor: Love and Thunder
(2022)
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Victoria Alexander
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Thor has been emasculated and is a co-star in his movie. It’s rote work for Hemsworth.
Posted Jul 11, 2022
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Elvis
(2022)
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Victoria Alexander
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Austin Butler is Baz Luhrmann’s Tulpa. Luhrmann conceived him and drapes him in a halo of devastating beauty. Butler can sing, dance and appears possessed in ecstasy by the soul of Elvis.
Posted Jun 28, 2022
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The Black Phone
(2021)
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Victoria Alexander
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More psychological than knife hacking but the dark setting and that mask makes this a frightening initiation ritual for teen boys to overcome.
Posted Jun 25, 2022
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Crimes of the Future
(2022)
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Victoria Alexander
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It made sense to me. We are living in a culture where beauty is manufactured and anyone can change their body into whatever they can afford. Radical mutilation is now celebrated as art as long as it is done in front of a paying audience.
Posted Jun 10, 2022
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Morbius
(2022)
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Victoria Alexander
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With THE LITTLE THINGS and his sensational, transformation in HOUSE OF GUCCI, Leto is totally invested and gives the Marvel Universe a mesmerizing character shaped with conflicting appetites.
Posted Apr 27, 2022
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
(2022)
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Victoria Alexander
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Nic Cage serves up a terrific movie. Cage sets the career procedural for pariahs Mel and Armie: Make a ton of VOD movies, student films and vanity movies that will never be released until something hits and its back to a theatrical movie release.
Posted Apr 22, 2022
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Deep Water
(2022)
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Victoria Alexander
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Sensational erotic adult thriller about rich people toying with infidelity. de Armas captives with a provocative performance. Grace Jenkins upstages de Armas with a song.
Posted Mar 23, 2022
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Nightmare Alley
(2021)
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Victoria Alexander
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Brilliant performance by Cooper.
Posted Jan 15, 2022
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The Power of the Dog
(2021)
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Victoria Alexander
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Brilliant! All Best Actor awards belong to Cumberbatch for this daring and unforgiving performance. Transcends acting into real life.
Posted Nov 14, 2021
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Dune
(2021)
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Victoria Alexander
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The messiah is a 14 year old scrawny boy. He's the prettiest ragdoll. Without Paul, Dune is a mesmerizing visual triumph. I worry about the sandworms.
Posted Oct 29, 2021
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The Last Duel
(2021)
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Victoria Alexander
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Scott's film is rightfully an epic given the stars and the vast production. Scott has chosen a story that challenges the current social climate of The Woke Army.
Posted Oct 14, 2021
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Titane
(2021)
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Victoria Alexander
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Provocative, daring, and fearlessly original. Ducournau emerges as a singular and strong director with a vision and a viewpoint. Bravo.
Posted Oct 09, 2021
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No Time to Die
(2021)
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Victoria Alexander
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The Woke Army has won. The masculine icon of a 60 year reign is over. An archetype who was desired by all who met him , male and female, is now monogamous and madly in love. He almost cries.
Posted Oct 01, 2021
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye
(2021)
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Victoria Alexander
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Chastain inhabits Tammy Faye. The brutal criticism of Tammy's appearance would be hailed as a brilliant "branding" strategy today.
Posted Sep 20, 2021
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Free Guy
(2021)
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Victoria Alexander
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Reynolds is terrific and an A-list actor nearly walks off with the movie. Dazzling effects and very clever.
Posted Aug 08, 2021
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F9 The Fast Saga
(2021)
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Victoria Alexander
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It held my interest until Roman and Tej went beyond Jupiter and met Dave Bowman.
Posted Jul 06, 2021
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