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Critic for hire. I’m fine. My face is just like that. @ChicagoCritics @TheSpool @TheFilmStage @BWDR @WGNRadio @EbertVoices etc. cipollam926@gmail #MeToo He/they
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‎‘Y2K’ review by Matt Cipolla • Letterboxd

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By Matt Cipolla Verified
| Letterboxd
I came across my old CD copy of Tubthumping the other day, so call this fate, I guess. If you and nine friends go to this and take up an entire row at the Alamo at 10:30 pm on a Tuesday, then you may have a decent time. Even then, your mileage may vary; I had some fun, but this isn't good. I mean, I wasn't expecting high art, but I also wasn't expecting something so botched in both pacing and tone.
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‎‘Heretic’ review by Matt Cipolla • Letterboxd

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By Matt Cipolla Verified
| Letterboxd
★★ In some ways, this encapsulates a lot of qualities that make me apathetic to so many movies getting churned out lately. It's almost entirely uninterested in semiotics. If it engages in what it uses to convey its ideas, it's passively and didactically, almost like it has to listen to its own talking points before it gets to… another talking point. And speaking of which, it's—and this is the big problem—wholly reliant on explaining such concepts just in case you somehow didn't get it.
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"She Just Had an Accident": "Seed of Chucky" at 20

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By Matt Cipolla Verified
| RogerEbert.com Verified
"That's the ugliest thing I've ever seen in my whole life!" a little girl (Bethany Simons-Denville) exclaims. She shouts it at the audience, who, in " Seed of Chucky"'s first-person opening scene, takes a queer kid's point-of-view. As she throws them into a toy chest, it's like we fall into a closet. The kid comes out soon after and, in a "Halloween" riff, murders the girl's parents. She reappears to scream at us. It's a nightmare and, before we can fully decimate the family unit, we wake up.
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