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Movies Watched -- Queen of the Earth

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90 minutes, which is the right length for a movie. This is a W.D. By movie so it suffers from the usual W.D. pretentiousness. I streamed it on Netflix so I couldn't fast forward, which I surely would have done (2x ffwd to retain audio).

Hannah Gold's review gets right to the point with her title: Exploring the Psycho-Horror of Female Friendship. Peggy Olson is the daughter of some famous artist who commits suicide and then her rotten boyfriend dumps her, so her mental health isn't so great. She goes to her best friend's place on some upstate lake to recover, but it doesn't help, the place has too many memories, and she and her buddy have a kind of screwed up relationship (i.e., a typical female friendship). Flashbacks to their previous summer there together when their places were sort of flip-flopped. Mirroring, ya know, artsy. 

Peggy's mental health deteriorates. Her buddy isn't much help. And the buddy's boyfriend is a really cruel asshole. At times it has a Martha Marcy May Marlene vibe (a movie I really liked, though mainly because I think Elizabeth Olsen is incredibly beautiful and talented). 

I wasn't thrilled with this. It isn't terrible but it also isn't any good. The critics will love it, audiences will hate it. Yellow rating (consider).

Stop judging me

Stop judging me

2015 Movies Watched -- Master List

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Bold means recommended. Italics means I haven't seen it yet. No documentaries included here.

  1. 45 Years (2015) {My review}

  2. '71 (2015)

  3. 99 Homes (2015)

  4. A Most Violent Year (2015)

  5. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2015)

  6. About Elly (2015)

  7. Anomalisa (2015) [Refuse to watch Charlie Kaufman pics on principle]

  8. Ant-Man (2015)

  9. Appropriate Behavior (2015)

  10. Beasts of No Nation (2015)

  11. Black Souls (2015)

  12. Bone Tomahawk (2015)

  13. Boy and the World (O Menino e o Mundo) (2015)

  14. Breathe (2015)

  15. Bridge of Spies (2015)

  16. Brooklyn (2015)

  17. Carol (2015)

  18. Clouds of Sils Maria (2015)

  19. Coming Home (2015)

  20. Creed (2015)

  21. Dope (2015)

  22. Ex Machina (2015)

  23. GETT: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2015) (My review)

  24. Girlhood (2015)

  25. Grandma (2015)

  26. Güeros (2015)

  27. I'll See You in My Dreams (2015)

  28. Inside Out (2015)

  29. It Follows (2015)

  30. James White (2015)

  31. Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2015)

  32. Love & Mercy (2015)

  33. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

  34. Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation (2015)

  35. Mississippi Grind (2015)

  36. Mommy (2015)

  37. Mr. Holmes (2015)

  38. Mustang (2015)

  39. Paddington (2015)

  40. Phoenix (2015)

  41. Queen of Earth (2015)

  42. Room (2015)

  43. Selma (2015)

  44. Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) {My review}

  45. Sicario (2015)

  46. Slow West (2015)

  47. Son of Saul (2015) {My review}

  48. Spotlight (2015)

  49. Spring (2015)

  50. Spy (2015)

  51. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)

  52. Steve Jobs (2015) [Quit after five minutes, looked that bad]

  53. Still Alice (2015)

  54. Straight Outta Compton (2015) [Quit after five minutes, alien culture]

  55. Tangerine (2015) {My review}

  56. The Big Short (2015)

  57. The Diary Of A Teenage Girl (2015) {My review}

  58. The Duke Of Burgundy (2015)

  59. The End Of The Tour (2015)

  60. The Forbidden Room (2015)

  61. The Gift (2015)

  62. The Lady In The Van (2015)

  63. The Look of Silence (2015) [Refused to watch after suffering The Act of Killing last year]

  64. The Martian (2015)

  65. The Peanuts Movie (2015)

  66. The Revenant (2015) {My review}

  67. The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?) (2015)

  68. The Tribe (2015)

  69. The Walk (2015) [Refused to watch re-make of Man on Wire, which I enjoyed]

  70. The Wonders (2015)

  71. Theeb (2015)

  72. Timbuktu (2015)

  73. Trainwreck (2015)

  74. We Are Still Here (2015)

  75. What We Do In The Shadows (2015)

  76. When Marnie Was There (2015)

  77. White God (2015)

  78. Wild Tales (2015) {My review}

Movies Watched -- Phoenix

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In German. 98 minutes, which is within the sacred 100 minute mark, but it still felt slow.  Watched on Netflix so I couldn't fast forward at 2x (retain audio) which I surely would have done. It's about a concentration camp survivor (yes, I again broke the Never Watch a Holocaust Movie rule, though unlike with Son of Saul, I wasn't glad I did here) who has reconstructive surgery of her face, and her husband doesn't recognize her when she sees him again. It's a capital A.R.T. movie, implausible story told so that the director can deliver his heavy-handed morality tale (identity, guilt, infatuation, transformation, etc.). Wasn't thrilled. Not really a red, but I'll give it a low-ranked yellow (consider) instead. 

The Book of Esther

The Book of Esther