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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Give us money and cast your vote on whether you want to give me a treat or play a mean trick on me.

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is the brilliant 4D chess critique Digger is making by the way.

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have never seen this level of entitled stan-like behavior over someone having a negative opinion over a thing they like outside of Barbz or Swifties. Thin skin from people venerating a movie whose supposed message is “be nice :)”

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Month 7 of Project Hail Mary shooters embarrassing themselves in the Letterboxd comments.

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Suehiro Maruo Art 🔞 @blincoln1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The snare drum from St. Anger finding new employment opportunities here.

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Evangelion Screenshots @ngescreenshot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 1 Angel Attack Angel Attack

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spencer @spencer7-5.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

one of the more useful things from "woke 1" was the idea that we shouldn't center a discussion of feminist theory around the feelings of men. this doesn't mean literal misandry, but it does mean allowing men to be uncomfortable and not letting them clog up feminism w/ concern trolling.

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Netscape @netscape.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Marvelous Or The Rebirth of Japan's Desire for a Standing Army

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intrusive xi jinping thought @craigrangoon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

how it feels

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Put me down as Resident Evil agnostic. A fine adaptation of the franchise and notable step forward in translating the immersive experience of gaming to film. Too bad Cregger left the joke machine on the fritz.

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I do love how Benny Safdie just does The Count voice the entire time and everyone has to pretend they’re not hearing a Muppet talk about making the hydrogen bomb.

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

August Viewing Notes has been unleashed! Featuring capsules on The End of Oak Street, Our Hero Balthazar, Buddy, the new cut of X-Files: I Want to Believe, The Fast and the Furious (in 4DX), House (on 35mm), and Blue Heron. nicoleveneto.substack.com/p/nicoles-vi...

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Nicole’s Viewing Notes: August

What I watched (and podcasted about) this month

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Gas leak episode. We’re all allowed those.

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As to be expected from me, I’ve come in fashionably late with a very revealing, very personal essay on Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. This one goes out to all my fellow sexual dissociators. substack.com/@nicolevenet...

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"Unless I'm really far away in my head"

Or, a Very Long, Winding, Personal Essay About Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

No movie is truly politically uncomplicated, especially one that invites and hinges so much on gender politics as Barbie.

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Strongly disagree with this manner of thinking re: IP movies. Barbie’s style of self-effacing humor, of making the joke about itself as a commercial product before the audience can, is a very political maneuver that obfuscates the primary role capitalism and consumerism play in a movie like this!

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I was not immune to hot pink consumerist propaganda. Still not entirely vaxxed against it to be perfectly honest.

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Another “Nicole trauma maxxing” episode of the pod.

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I don’t know how you can conclude that Camp Miasma is an uncritical endorsement of “let people enjoy things XD” telling you it’s good and healthy to stay comfortably cocooned and emotionally stunted within fictional worlds unless you disregard both the ending and the entire thesis of TV Glow.

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Funny and offputting in a way I found marginally enjoyable until it really wasn’t.

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Plenty of good reasons I never remade my own personal Twitter account to rejoin Film Twitter, but the normalization of this particular kind of behavior and engagement in that space is the number one reason why.

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

No you’re all actually just mean, nasty, and intensely parasocial losers sublimating your own inability to be creative or offer anything resembling intelligent thought into degrading other people online. Real noxious combination of jealousy and brainrotted lack of empathy.

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

And their line of defense for spreading nasty rumors that ran a trans director off the platform is that it’s all just a “joke”; Jane is rich and famous and successful and we are just smol beans with smaller follower counts so don’t you dare sic an angry mob on us! Cry bully behavior.

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Absolute roach army presided over by a certain white Argentine Letterboxd power user channeling her latent Hitlerian genetic destiny into being an insufferable high school girl. Glorified Barb stan account unable to offer anything resembling smart or insightful film analysis.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My June-July Viewing Notes is finally here! Feat. capsules on The Furious, River’s Edge, Satantango, Scary Movie, Stop! That! Train!, Disclosure Day, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (more incoming), Adolescence of Utena, Evil Dead Burn, Tony, The Odyssey, and Hadestown.i

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Nicole's Viewing Notes: June-July

Featuring capsules on The Furious, River's Edge, Satantango, Scary Movie, Disclosure Day, Stop! That! Train!, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (kind of), Adolescence of Utena, Evil Dead Burn, Tony...

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I consider it a deep moral failing that it took us four years to do an episode on an Anno movie, please forgive me.

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Went on for so long we changed the chat name to “Blue Beetle Fan Club.”

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Just double checked and Cole’s claim about Blue Beetle’s popularity merited at least four hours of heated discussion in the group chat almost a year ago.

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I need Best Actor nominee Robert Pattinson so bad please please please pretty please!!!

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The Arts Fuse @theartsfuse.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

@kuntsuragi.bsky.social welcomes Nicolas Winding Refn's #HerPrivateHell in all its somnambulistic glory. This baffling, vibe‑driven film trades narrative for fetish—and asks whether you still care what the critics think. artsfuse.org/332409/film-...

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Film Review: "Her Private Hell" - A Rorschach Test in Neon and Leather - The Arts Fuse

Nicolas Winding Refn’s baffling, vibe‑driven film trades narrative for fetish—and asks whether you still care what the critics think.

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Baffling at first glance considering how little you’re given in the way of narrative on top of the total unreality of it all. But you gotta surrender to the vibe and take everything on the level of pure, sensorial emotion. You’re all gonna love this in five years.

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Review to come, but so many people got filtered by Her Private Hell because they made the mistake of interpreting it as a literal narrative and not as an aesthetized, psychosexual dreamscape of a character’s rampant daddy issues. You’re not getting Drive-era Refn back. Here’s The Leather Man!

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I offer a soft defense of a movie I found overall enjoyable but part and parcel to larger problems like chaining Spider-Man to the multiverse, Oops! All Easter Eggs, cynical representation politics, and the systemic exploitation of animators. More thoughts here: boxd.it/ffxYRv

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A ★★★ review of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

I’m on thin ice with the Lord and Miller crowd so let me lead with the positives — in all likelihood I’m going to be the one defending this movie on the podcast. The animation* is undeniably excellent...

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Perfectly fine but a tad overrated I must say. “Animation is cinema” crowd is not sending their best.

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Netscape @netscape.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Whether you like the film or not, The Odyssey is a resounding success for Performative Male Reading. The only way that we’re undoing the literacy crisis is when every Adult male is carrying at least 2 soon to be a major motion picture novels around in their degendered canvas tote purse

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Perhaps a shameful thing I will admit here: Tom Holland contributed to me getting misty eyed.

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Drove all the way down to Providence to see if in 70mm IMAX then proceeded to be lost in my own odyssey trying to find the car in the Providence Place parking garage which is one of the most ludicrously designed things I have even been forced to navigate.

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Not a Nolan completionist or huge fan by any means, and I will be rewatching Oppenheimer on a few weeks for the pod, but my first impressions of The Odyssey are that it’s my favorite effort from him. Exceeded my expectations by really surprising me. boxd.it/fhpiIX

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A ★★★★½ review of The Odyssey (2026)

This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Lindsay Graham: [dead and taking backshots from demons in hell] Me: [alive and petting rabbits]

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Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema @marvelousdeath.com · 10/07/2026

Diesel has a long history of carny hucksterism on social media, which you can learn all about by listening to our just-completed Fast and Furious retrospective series: www.patreon.com/collection/2...

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Fast and Furious Retrospective | Collection from Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema. | 3 posts | Patreon

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