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James Y. Lee
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they/them• 🇰🇷 🇺🇸 • Film Critic (Frame Rated, Film Obsessive) • Chicago Indie Critics / GALECA Member • @Northwestern
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If you are in such a place of extraordinary privilege that you can say that "well, at least they scrubbed AI out of it" then, you know, maybe take a knee. Take this time instead to really think about how much empathy - how much *humanity* - you have lost by being wealthy and white in this country.
July 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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I will never recover from the years I spent working in media amid a totally deranged obsession with empathy for Trump voters who wanted nothing but to make other people suffer
July 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Oscars Add Best Stunt Design Category Starting in 2027

variety.com/2025/awards/...
Oscars Add Best Stunt Design Category Starting in 2027
A stunt design category is coming to the Oscars.
variety.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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There is a type of liberal/left bleakness that manifests itself in a compulsion to announce that nothing that doesn't fix everything means anything. The people who feel the need to keep expressing that are victims of our time (and this medium). But they are also ultimately enemies of improvement. >
April 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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At last night’s LAFCA Awards, ANORA director Sean Baker read the letter he sent to FANGORIA in 1988, praising Chuck Russell’s THE BLOB.

What happened next inspired him to pursue filmmaking.

Great things happen when you write to The Postal Zone!
February 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.
theonion.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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January 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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"Masculine Energy"
January 20, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Merry Christmas from everyone at Frame Rated 🎄
December 25, 2024 at 9:10 AM
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"NICKEL BOYS is remarkably attentive to its exploration of genre, medium, and form, allowing Ross to gracefully transition from documentary to drama. It’s one of the most inventive, impactful films I’ve seen recently, and one that just might create a paradigm shift in the world of narrative film."
Nickel Boys (2024): Shifting Perspective
Like everything Ross touches, his adaptation of Nickel Boys exists on its own terms, blurring traditional lines of genre and form.
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December 16, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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Googling Stuff: Then v Now.
December 11, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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Listening to a podcast where some notable film journalists are talking about some of the great films this year and they keep using the word 'difficult' to describe films they love. Films like Nickel Boys and The Substance. How we talk about great films matters.
December 7, 2024 at 5:53 AM
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Infinite Growth Forever:
global-tetrahedron.com
November 14, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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I used to be a real news pervert but I’ve basically only watched the food network this week and it’s going great
November 12, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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Chappell Roan sounds like a place they have to defend in Lord of the Rings.
November 12, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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November 10, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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It’s really a perfect encapsulation of how far behind Chicago is from its peers that the night we finally get to see GLADIATOR II, other markets got to see NOSFERATU. I can only kind of laugh.
November 8, 2024 at 6:00 AM
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mental health tip, don't try to understand the election results, read hot takes, look at exit poll data, etc. your brain will die. political junkies will spend months figuring it out. instead be like me, get off the internet, hang with your buds, play video games, eat hamburger
November 7, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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I've talked to a few folks this morning who were talking about stopping work on their creative projects. Because it's "not important anymore."

I don't know who needs to hear this, but DON'T DO THAT.

We win by living our lives as loudly and truly as we can. That includes your "silly" art project.
November 6, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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If you are coming to Bluesky today for the first time or returning, this list of film critics is worth a follow.

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November 6, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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My politics are basically still the same as when I was a 14 year old growing up under Reagan and found punk rock. I don't trust the machinery of power. I don't believe American politics are about anything but money. And I don't think anyone's going to save us. All that we have is each other.
November 6, 2024 at 7:06 PM