laynie

laynie

Favorite films

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Burn After Reading
  • Before Sunrise
  • Look Back

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  • The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

    ★★★½

  • Being John Malkovich

    ★★★★½

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★★½

  • The Big Short

    ★★★½

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  • The Big Short

    The Big Short

    ★★★½

    really enjoyed the direction of this film. it's a difficult thing to make a financial crisis comprehensible, much less entertaining, and i think mckay's style did about as much justice as it could to the concept. the film has a stacked cast but steve carrell stole the show as usual. really phenomenal in his role. wasnt particularly moving or technically impressive, but i enjoyed it more than i thought i would

  • Unforgiven

    Unforgiven

    not rating cause i'm too biased against westerns

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  • Happiness

    Happiness

    ★★★★

    possibly the most awkward movie of all time

  • Dead Poets Society

    Dead Poets Society

    ★★★★★

    it's not often that i watch a movie and feel genuinely inspired. a lot of movies try really hard to be inspiring. like they're shoving values down your throat without really making you think about them. but this movie challenges you to think at every single moment. it gives you the words, it puts them to action, it draws the lines where they reach their limit. it grabs you by the face and tells you to close your eyes and say…

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