Adam Lauver

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actor, writer, recovering phd dropout.

ambivalent and partly okay with it.

Favorite films

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • The Seventh Seal
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • I ♥ Huckabees

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  • Be Kind Rewind

    ★★★½

  • Kajillionaire

    ★★★★½

  • Frankenhooker

    ★★★

  • Greedy People

    ★★★

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  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★★★★

    EEAAO is one of those holy films.

    Daniels manage to pluck out the most fundamental pearls of what it means to be human -- our fears, anxieties, loneliness, despair, our hopes and our desires and our most sublime experiences of beauty, connection, and love -- and at once distill them and explode them across every humanly imaginable scale in a story brimming with tenderness and yearning and pain. It's like they put all of our questions and doubts and curiosities…

  • A Quiet Place: Day One

    A Quiet Place: Day One

    ★★★½

    I have to confess that, though I saw and enjoyed the first two A Quiet Place films, I didn’t have that much interest in this prequel until I started hearing positive reviews. I heard the movie was effectively tense. I heard it was unexpectedly nuanced in its direction and script. I heard that half the fun was sitting in a silent theater and feeling the visceral tension of that silence as the audience remained as breathlessly silent as the characters…

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  • Be Kind Rewind

    Be Kind Rewind

    ★★★½

    so cute! liked the movie a lot more the second time around.

  • Kajillionaire

    Kajillionaire

    ★★★★½

    IS THIS MOVIE TRYING TO RILE ME UP?

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  • Strange Darling

    Strange Darling

    ★★

    (had to bump this one from 3 to 2.5 to 2 the more I thought about it 😬)

    ohhh boy. I was ready to give this flick a solid 4. thrilling, surprising, well shot, deliciously uncomfortable, with a pretty effective narrative structure to boot. it was taking me for a hell of a ride that I really appreciated in the moment (which apparently might only be because I didn't watch the trailer and went in knowing nothing about the story,…

  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★★

    where the heck was the stage manager though