J L

J L

Favorite films

  • Twin Peaks: The Return
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • There Will Be Blood

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  • Snowpiercer

    ★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

    ★★★★★

  • Sugarcane

    ★★★★

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  • Snowpiercer

    Snowpiercer

    ★★★½

    Me watching a dystopian cli-fi about a train with weird politics and Tilda Swinton

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    Deeply wacky, like I went in not knowing one thing about this and it was Douglas Adams and Invader Zim wacky.

    Toni Collette as Jan Crouch as Missi Pyle as Mrs. Beauregarde.

    I wish the bugs had been Jim Henson puppets but I fear that may have been too wacky.

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  • Poor Things

    Poor Things

    ★★

    I haven't read the source this was adapted from, but I've read Frankenstein so I guess my lens looking at this movie is based way heavily on the source of the source.

    In Frankenstein and in most of the feminist criticism around the book and around Mary Shelley in general, it's understood that the female monster doesn't get a chance at life because the male creator fears the existence of a female creature with bodily autonomy, and what she might…

  • Emilia Pérez

    Emilia Pérez

    ★½

    On top of everything else, insane cinematography and editing choices.

    Like being tailgated by a car with LED high beams for two hours, and whoever's sitting in the passenger seat on aux is just picking the worst songs.

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