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Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing

Benjamin Nugent

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Best known for his Oscar-nominated song "Miss Misery" from the Good Will Hunting soundtrack, Elliott...

Affirmable

Lifestyle and Health & Fitness

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Affirmable is the most beautiful way to create and curate your personal affirmations. • View your...

50 Years of Queer Cinema: 500 of the Best GLBTQ Films Ever Made

Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince

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Out, outrageous, provocative, and proud, this comprehensive anthology and library resource reviews...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000) in Movies

Sep 20, 2020

Back when every studio drama wanted to be indie real bad (when we got shit like J-Lo's 𝘈𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭 𝘌𝘺𝘦𝘴 for example) and when hyperlink movies were king. This really could have been something, but instead it leans way too close into the template for all the movies this is ripping off (one-quirk characters overexplaining the themes to the leads and - by extension - the viewers, long writerly conversations that exist solely for decoration, cloying symbolism, purposefully disappointing non-resolutions, etc.) All but completely throws aside the lives of these unique, incredibly intriguing women in favor of having their stories revolve around some lackluster romance - pretty much defining them all by it in the end. For shame. Not entirely unpleasant, of course the ensemble is stuffed with amazing talent, it has a nice cadence and some decent scenes here and there. But as far as I'm concerned Rodrigo García should be fired for continually swinging and missing by turning these potentially thought-provoking stories into underwritten, tiresome (and borderline offensive) grief exploitation.