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Adolescence: We Don’t Want to Watch This Show, but We Have To

Netflix’s Adolescence (2025) is a punishing watch. Created by Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham, directed by Philip Barantini, this four-episode British drama unfolds through relentless one-hour-long single takes. It’s suffocating, unflinching, and deeply uncomfortable—but that’s exactly why we need to talk about it. The series revolves around 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) who's accused of fatally stabbing his female classmate. Each episode peels back another layer of the case, shifting pe

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Adolescence: We Don’t Want to Watch This Show, but We Have To

Can Directors Stop Wasting Anya Taylor-Joy?

I just watched The Gorge (2025), the action-horror-sci-fi-romance-thriller (yes, really) now trending on Apple TV since Valentine’s Day. And I have one burning question: why does Hollywood insist on giving Anya Taylor-Joy visually striking but utterly forgettable roles? In this movie, she plays Drasa, a lethal sniper stationed in a mysterious, no-go valley alongside Miles Teller’s Levi. Their job is to stop creepy “Hollow Men” from climbing out of the gorge and wreaking havoc. That’s about as mu

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Can Directors Stop Wasting Anya Taylor-Joy?

Does Disney’s Remake Game Even Have Rules?

Disney is at it again, playing its favorite game: the live-action remake roulette. But if their latest moves are anything to go by, it seems like the rules of this game are getting increasingly arbitrary—or worse, deliberately engineered to spark outrage and, consequently, giving them free publicity. With the latest Lilo & Stitch (2025) teaser out and Snow White (2025) around the corner, one thing has become glaringly obvious: Disney can do faithful adaptations when it wants to. It just sometime

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Does Disney’s Remake Game Even Have Rules?

Thank God the Oscars Are Finally Over

I used to love award season. Now, I dread it. So, Anora just swept the Oscars, taking home five major awards—Best Picture, Best Director (Sean Baker), Best Actress (Mikey Madison), Best Original Screenplay, and Best Editing. It should’ve been a celebration. Instead, it turned into a bloodbath. Online discourse quickly spiraled into an all-too-familiar pattern: a movie wins big, and suddenly, liking it or disliking it becomes a statement about your entire moral and intellectual worth. The interne

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Bridget Jones at 50: A Life Worth Stealing?

There’s no millennial girl who hasn’t seen Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), but not everyone has followed up with the sequels. At least, I didn’t. Now it’s 2025, and when Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy came out, I suddenly realized there was a second and third movie that I had completely missed. Where was I all these years? Busy with life, I guess. But jumping straight from the first movie to the fourth? That was a shock. Because in my mind, Bridget was still the slightly chubby, thirty-something

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Bridget Jones at 50: A Life Worth Stealing?

Black Books: The Only World Where Failure Feels Like Freedom

Growing up, I spent the long, sunny afternoons of my summer vacations in bookstores, devouring whatever literary treasures that manage to catch my eye. No phones, no distractions—just the satisfying weight of a book in hand and the quiet murmurs of the old shopkeeper in the background. Oh, and the air conditioning was always just a bit too strong. Back then, life was simpler, and leisure meant walking into a dusty little shop and losing yourself in the pages of a book, rather than checking your

Raingirl96: I didn’t expect to see people talking about it here. Black Books is really great, it’s my go-to escape.

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Black Books: The Only World Where Failure Feels Like Freedom

The White Lotus: My Guilty Pleasure of Watching Rich People Crash and Burn

Why do we—The Definitely Not Rich—love The White Lotus so much? It’s simple. There’s something almost primal in our enjoyment of watching these privileged characters unravel. It’s the undeniable satisfaction of seeing mean, hypocritical rich people, with their facade of wealth and respectability, suffer the consequences of their own actions. And this new season set in Thailand hits all the right notes. Honestly, if you have been to Thailand, you might be surprised by how accurate the show gets t

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The White Lotus: My Guilty Pleasure of Watching Rich People Crash and Burn

Severance S2: It's Not the Memories That Get Severed. It's My Idealism

When I first watched Severance (2022), I was a postgraduate student. I viewed the show with all the excitement of someone who had not yet entered the workforce. My idealism burned hot and I firmly believed that I would never let myself fall into the trap of being consumed by a corporate machine. But today, as I watch Season 2 (2025), something has shifted—not just in the show, but in me. Two years of grinding away in the "real world" have fundamentally altered my perspective. While the show rema

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Severance S2: It's Not the Memories That Get Severed. It's My Idealism

Babygirl Is So Bad That I Need It

There are certain films that manage to land in a gray area between what we’re told we should hate and what, for reasons we can’t fully explain, we feel we need. Babygirl (2024) is one of those films. It’s flawed in ways that are impossible to ignore—the shallow handling of the SM themes, the overly simplisitic take on female desire, and the frustrating way it brushes past important dynamics of power, to say the least. But somehow, despite all its glaring issues, Babygirl ended up being exactly t

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Nosferatu Killed My Vampire Romance

I used to be one of those who romanticize vampires to an embarrassing degree. Brooding creatures of the night, immortal and eternally young, lurking in Gothic castles or smoky underground clubs, reciting poetry while nursing an existential crisis. The kind of vampire who makes you consider, just for a second, if giving up sunlight and garlic might actually be worth it. Then I watched Nosferatu (2024), and suddenly, my vampire fantasy shriveled up like a corpse left in the sun. And I’m not saying

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Gen Z: Masters of Flirting, Failures at Commitment?

When My Fault (Culpa mía), the Spanish teen romance movie about forbidden love between step-siblings, hit streaming platforms in 2023, it quickly became a guilty pleasure for many, especially for a generation addicted to escapism and unrealistic love stories. But as we dive into its sequel that was released in late December last year, Your Fault (Culpa tuya), it’s hard not to feel a sense of déjà vu—this is yet another classic example of a teen romance franchise that’s gone off the rails. And if

Miguelangel Ulloa: Es muy buena película mezcla de acción y romance es muy buena

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Gen Z: Masters of Flirting, Failures at Commitment?

Flow: Is the Absence of Human Speech Really Anti-Humanism?

Just to be clear, Flow (2024) is good, but there's a lot of marketing around how it avoids over-anthropomorphizing the animals, and I just didn't feel that way after watching it. I've seen multiple takes praising how it de-centers humanity by portraying animals as naturally as possible—while simultaneously applauding how it serves as an allegory for human society. Maybe these people don't even realize how contradictory that is! When I was a kid, I loved The Lion King and begged the adults around

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Flow: Is the Absence of Human Speech Really Anti-Humanism?

Why Women Love Igor (Even If They Don’t Know It Yet)?

Played with incredible subtlety by Yura Borisov, Igor from Anora is not only one of the most magnetic presences in the Palme d’Or-winning film directed by Sean Baker, but he might also be the only man I’d want to date—on-screen or off. As Valentine’s Day approaches and I reflect on modern romance, I find myself irresistibly drawn to Igor, a man who embodies the kind of qualities that feel almost mythical in today’s world. To put it bluntly: I’ve been done with real-life men for a while. Like man

JennMaxwell: I love Igor as a character, he's so well written and complex. and Yura Borisov's performance was unbelievable.

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Why Women Love Igor (Even If They Don’t Know It Yet)?

A Blockbuster Digital Escape Movie: TikTok Refugees Flood to RedNote

It’s not every day that the impending shutdown of a social media platform triggers a global digital migration—yet that’s exactly what happened in January 2025. As the U.S. government moved to ban TikTok, over half a million American users, by conservative estimates, fled to an unlikely refuge: Xiaohongshu (a China’s social APP), or as many Americans now call it, RedNote. The ban was imminent on January 19, and before the clock could strike midnight, TikTok—after bidding farewell to its 170 milli

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A Blockbuster Digital Escape Movie: TikTok Refugees Flood to RedNote

What Went Wrong with Squid Game Season 2?

Three years of waiting, three years of fan theories and speculation, and three years of hoping that Netflix’s biggest Korean hit could return with a bang. But when Squid Game Season 2 finally landed, it wasn’t the triumphant return fans were anticipating. Instead, it’s a case of high expectations meeting a steep decline. Sure, there are still games, betrayals, and the signature eerie tension, but something vital is missing. Let’s get straight to the point: the games themselves. In Squid Game Sea

Ishika Banerjee: Really fun article!!I love Squid Game 2 for expanding from the 1st season but I also understand people's frustration towards the issues.

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What Went Wrong with Squid Game Season 2?

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El Arte me conecta con mi imaginación donde habitan mis diversas realidades. Aquí volcaré esos sentimientos que despiertan las películas en mi mundo interior. Si quisieras conocerlos, te invito a leer Mis Sensaciones. Silvia Ayciriex Instagram: criticxs_by_silvia_ayciriex silviaayciriex@hotmail.com

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Adolescence: We Don’t Want to Watch This Show, but We Have To

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Can Directors Stop Wasting Anya Taylor-Joy?

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Thank God the Oscars Are Finally Over

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Black Books: The Only World Where Failure Feels Like Freedom

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The White Lotus: My Guilty Pleasure of Watching Rich People Crash and Burn

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Severance S2: It's Not the Memories That Get Severed. It's My Idealism

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Babygirl Is So Bad That I Need It

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Nosferatu Killed My Vampire Romance

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Gen Z: Masters of Flirting, Failures at Commitment?

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Flow: Is the Absence of Human Speech Really Anti-Humanism?

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