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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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Gauging the consensus is always imprecise, but I’d highlight:

Susan Chardy, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
David Jonsson, The Long Walk
Ralph Fiennes, 28 Years Later
Aisling Franciosi, Twinless
Robert Pattinson, Mickey 17
Channing Tatum, Roofman

And my favorite overlooked movie: On Swift Horses
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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This is obviously terrible, but I appreciate Jackson pointing out that Trump’s legal argument is basically “I should be allowed to do whatever I want.”
As for the Government’s suggestion that the President is harmed by not being able to impose a uniform definition of sex across various regulatory schemes, that assertion is just another species of the far-fetched contention that the President must be injured whenever he is prevented from doing as he wishes. Department of Homeland Security v. D. V. D.,606 U. S. ___, ___–___ (2025) (S OTOMAYOR, J., dissenting from grant of stay) (slip op., at 11–12). The Government also fails to explain why it needs a uniform definition of sex, much less why such a uniform definition needs to be im-posed now such that it cannot await the outcome of this litigation.
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Thanks, Jason! Always appreciate you reading. And yeah, this is basically my seventh-favorite Lanthimos movie, which means it is merely Quite Good.
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Before classifying voters as Jewish, demographic pollsters should be required to watch LONG STORY SHORT.

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Naomi, defending the religious upbringing of her children, insists that she possesses the perfect and singular understanding of Jewishness: “a progressive egalitarian Conservative Judaism with an emphasis on ritual and community over faith and blind practice.” That seems reasonable enough, but as Avi grows older, he finds himself straying from his heritage, complaining that executing different ceremonies simply amounts to “doing a bunch of stuff” for no reason. For Shira’s part, she turns to cooking in a time of grief, hoping that replicating her deceased mother’s exact recipe for knish will create a closeness in death that they never shared in life. Shira’s wife, Kendra (Nicole Byer), initially pretends to be Jewish in order to wriggle out of a sticky situation at work, only to attend synagogue during Yom Kippur and become so moved by the notion of collective atonement that she decides to convert. And Yoshi, ever the listless and unfulfilled child, finds structure and kinship in Orthodoxy, even though its ancient codes and peculiar canons alarm his Reformist siblings. The point is simple but important: Jews are not a monolith. Even within a single family, Jewishness is amenable to countless permutations; it can’t be reduced to a one-size-fits-all template (or two stone tablets) of beliefs and customs. And that’s a message that should be disseminated loudly and repeatedly, given how the extant political machinery in America is weaponizing the concept of Jewishness—and is purporting to combat anti-Semitism—in ways that are vulgar and dangerous.
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Just found this in my Drafts folder. Not ideal.
I'm overgeneralizing here, but it's dispiriting to me how much of online film criticism has been reduced to, "I strongly like/dislike this movie, and if you feel differently about it that's because you're a fucking idiot and maybe a bigot"
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Easily my favorite of his solo records thus far. It’ll likely make my year-end top 10, and “Luke and Leanna” is my pick for song of the year.
October 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM