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Chevalier (2022)
Historical inaccurate & boring
I am so disappointed. 1. I love the Chevalier de Saint-Georges. 2. His life story is fascinating 3. It's a shame we don't learn about him like we do his friend and contemporary Motzart, who was slightly less famous in their lifetime (this erasure of his history was systematic by Napoleon, who wanted to re-engage France in the slave trade). 4. Stephanie Robinson, the writer, kills on 'Atlanta' and 'What we do in the Shadows.' So I was excited about this! And it failed.
Just historically inaccurate, which made it less exciting and interesting. His relationships with every historical character in the movie, including his parents, were totally false. His relationship with the French Revolution was inaccurate.
I don't understand why you'd lie to make a story worse. His actual life story is so captivating. Skip the movie, put on the Chevalier de Saint-Georges' Spotify, and read his Wikipedia page instead.
Your Place or Mine (2023)
Almost a great rom com.
So good until the end. SPOILER ALERT.
Hear me out - a better ending would have been if Debbie & Peter were genuinely just friends. Debbie doesn't lie to Theo about staying at her friend, the author, Peter's apartment and pursuing her degree ;) while working as a freelance editor. Debbie accepts the interview and gets her dream job as an editor. Peter realizes he's in love with his fantastic and generous neighbor, Minka, and Minka is not a manic pixie dream neighbor. Debbie and Jack move to New York, where Jack makes real friends, and Peter and Minka are his cool aunt and uncles because they don't want their own kids and love caring for Jack. Unfortunately, this was not the ending though. The ending was lame.