alainacrowell

alainacrowell

Favorite films

  • 20th Century Women
  • Contact
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • I Saw the TV Glow

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  • Queer

    ★★★½

  • Past Lives

    ★★★★½

  • The Menu

    ★★★★½

  • We're All Going to the World's Fair

    ★★

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  • Queer

    Queer

    ★★★½

    psychological and visual exploration of longing, repression, and chasing. chasing but running and maybe looking too close, wanting something too much, having missed a time to have more time to want. and as soon as you have something, it wasn't there, it never was, you're disembodied and watching things unfold with no explanation other than you're awake.

  • Past Lives

    Past Lives

    ★★★★½

    sad like la la land

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  • Dead Ringers

    Dead Ringers

    ★★★★★

    Rachel Weisz please step on me

  • Fargo

    Fargo

    ½

    Honestly not impressed. The Coen Brothers basically lied through their teeth about the plot being based on a true story, so that's not sittin' well with me. Frances McDormand, bless her heart, is cast as the lead here but her introduction felt far too late. I'm not too sure what the Coen Brothers really wanted to do with the accents here either; I'm leaning towards interpreting their use of "Minnesota Nice" as a way to really belittle McDormand's character. She's…

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