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Jeremy Beck
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Movie critic. TV addict. Editor-in-chief of MovieManifesto.com. Same handle on Letterboxd. For freelance: beck dot jeremy at gmail. he/him
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This weekend in “I contain cinematic multitudes” (WAKE UP DEAD MAN not pictured because fuck Netflix for not letting me see it in a movie theater):
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December 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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#NW #Holiday95Rewatch

You sit on it, but you don’t take it with you.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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There should be a "Show" option on the label in the quote-tweet, though at this point the payoff surely won't be worth the build-up.
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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[DiCaprio point]
Bruce Willis in 12 MONKEYS saying "All I see are dead people"
December 11, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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You can’t change the past, you can only podcast about it.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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These days, anti-Semitism on Twitter exists in many forms.
A tweet from someone asking, "Do people actually go to the movie theaters on Christmas Day?"
December 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Me reading this like
Annette Bening looking mortified in THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT
December 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Sure you knew this movie was a remake of a Billy Wilder picture, but did you know that it was later remade itself?
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December 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Can’t wait for Kiernan Shipka to show up.
Poster for SABRINA (1995)
December 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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His name’s Bob Rumson and he’s running for President.
Poster for MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS
December 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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This is indeed historic. No other actor has earned a Golden Globe nomination for playing Elphaba even once.
Today’s News: Cynthia Erivo Makes History with Second Straight Golden Globe Nod for Elphaba
December 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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[weeping] La-hoo zuh-her
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December 7, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Just saw these back-to-back and I’ll write about one or maybe both but I have to say I really love watching movies.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Robert Pattinson in Mickey 17, GOOD CHOICE

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Twin cinema is a rife subgenre, but Pattison’s performance(s) here are hardly typical. Speaking in a pinched, nasal whine, he effortlessly differentiates his doppelgangers; where 17 is mild, modest, and affable, 18 is angry, cocky, and assertive. Yet Pattinson also suggests their shared DNA, creating a curiously symbiotic relationship that proves both oppositional and fraternal. The scenes in which the two variants navigate their predicament and underline their clashing personalities (18 is repeatedly infuriated by 17’s timidity) lend the movie its bountiful wellspring of comedy, along with its quiet source of pathos.
December 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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I thankfully missed the TRAIN DREAMS discourse, so I’ll just say I think it’s a good movie and I wish I’d been able to see it in a theater.

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Train Dreams doesn’t really have a plot, but it does feature an early catalyzing incident, when Grainier watches in stunned silence as his bosses grab his Chinese colleague and chuck him off a bridge—for no apparent reason beyond the man’s ethnicity. Bentley periodically brings the dead man back to life, showing him sitting watchfully at the fireside, the implication being that Grainier remains haunted by his own inaction in the face of murder. That might sound clumsy, but there is nothing didactic about Train Dreams; it merely observes, and any judgment comes from Grainier himself, not the movie. Nor does it descend into miserabilism; Grainier’s life is hard, but he also enjoys a happy marriage (Felicity Jones plays his wife), and though a mid-film tragedy sends him into despair, the picture surrounding him never spirals into blackness. How could it, when the invaluable Kerry Condon pops up to provide radiant warmth? The result is a modest portrait that’s also a fulsome chronicle of human existence—novelistic in scope, intimate in style. Grade: B+
December 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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I think Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN is a beautifully made movie, and I wished it moved me more. (Or maybe I’m just annoyed that I had to watch it on Netflix.)

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And yet, there is something limiting about Del Toro’s rigidity. The heart of Frankenstein lies in how its obsessed doctor fails to grapple with the humanity of his own invention. Structurally, Del Toro’s adaptation makes sure the creature has his say—the screenplay is divided into two parts, with god and monster each relaying his own tale of woe—but spiritually it’s aligned with its physician, focusing more on precision than freedom. It’s a magnificent innovation that doesn’t quite carry the spark of life.
December 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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My thoughts on Netflix acquiring Warner Bros. are that you should watch SENTIMENTAL VALUE.

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Nestled within Sentimental Value’s rolling tenderness and thoughtful insights are some sharp jabs at Netflix, which has provided financing for Gustav’s latest project. At a junket, a reporter asks Gustav if his new movie will be screening in theaters, and he finds the question baffling: “Where else would it play?” As someone who dolefully watched both Frankenstein and Train Dreams on his TV set (first-world problems, I know), I found Gustav’s irritation heartening. He may be a prick, but given the current state of cinema, he’s also the hero we need. Grade: A-
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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You know this was back when Sorkin was restrained because it took him over seven minutes before dropping a “For reasons passing understanding.”
Michael Douglas in THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT saying "For reasons passing understanding, people don't relate guns to gun-related crime."
December 4, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Sydney, Congress doesn’t take this long.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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I know Del Toro is terrific in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, but he’s equally wonderful in THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME, and I hope his recognition for the former doesn’t distract from his excellence in the latter.

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Yet the most important player in The Phoenician Scheme, aside from Del Toro, is one I’d never heard of before. Her name is Mia Threapleton, and she plays Liesl, Korda’s only daughter (he also has at least eight younger sons who tend to sit in the balcony and fire munitions at their father). Casting a relative newcomer made sense (Anderson had apparently never heard of her either; turns out she’s Kate Winslet’s daughter), given that Liesl has long been estranged from Korda and isn’t a member of his club, with its vast old-boys’ network and backroom dealings. But there is nothing tentative about Threapleton’s performance. She exhibits a coiled physicality, and she delivers Anderson’s verbal volleys with clockwork timing, helping to lend the movie’s many dialogue exchanges a steady rhythm. She also brings out the best in Del Toro, a gifted but mercurial actor who sometimes glides through his roles; here he’s locked in, shading Korda with a latent vulnerability while still emphasizing his self-important grandeur.
December 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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[screams into void]

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Except you don’t. Imagine a movie that received 10 reviews, 9 of which deemed it a masterpiece and 1 of which called it a turd. Now imagine a second movie that also received 10 reviews—9 describing it as “passably diverting” and the tenth labeling it “well-intentioned but ultimately unsuccessful.” Under Rotten Tomatoes’ simplistic rubric, both films receive the identical score of 90%, implying that they were each regarded equivalently by the critical community. (Nomadland and Spider-Man: No Way Home are both sitting at 93%; they’re basically the same movie!)
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Wait how is this not called THE ODD THROUPLE
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November 26, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Wasn’t sure what to get the niece for Hanukkah, thankfully SENTIMENTAL VALUE gave me an idea
A screenshot showing that I added the DVD of THE PIANO TEACHER to my cart.
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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This weekend in “I contain cinematic multitudes” (TRAIN DREAMS not pictured because fuck you Netflix):
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November 24, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Getting ready to log it like
Emma Mackey in EMILY writing with a quill
November 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM