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  • The Florida Project

    ★★★★½

  • Anyone But You

    ★★½

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    ★★★½

  • While You Were Sleeping

    ★★★★

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  • The Florida Project

    The Florida Project

    ★★★★½

    This is a movie I will think about for a long time. It’s a surreal, unflinching look at life in the unglamorous shadow of Disney. Told through six-year-old Moonee’s perspective, it’s a story of resilience, parenting, and the quiet toll of poverty. Moonee and her mother Halley, a struggling sex worker, navigate life in a purple pastel motel on Orlando’s outskirts. They are making it alive thanks to their makeshift community.  

    The film vividly captures Florida’s essence — from Styrofoam-plated Cuban food to moss-draped oaks. The last scene, before the surreal Disney sequence, is heartbreakingly raw and broke me.

  • Anyone But You

    Anyone But You

    ★★½

    I really wished I believed the love story between these two. The beginning started off strong. It was a great meet-cute and instant chemistry. But once she came back to his apartment and heard what he said, and the rom-com enemies to lovers started I just couldn’t buy it. I found the parents very annoying. I really wish that the side characters: the sister, the best friend and the sister‘s best friend were more developed. They just fell short for…

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  • The Boy and the Heron

    The Boy and the Heron

    ★★★★

    Grabs you with the first scene of the hospital burning down killing his mother. After that it was a tad bit slow for me and I was confused with the unexplained magic & weirdness, but I played along and don’t regret watching it. The imagination was out of this world!! 

    Ultimately the movie was about loss, a boy grieving his mother, then accepting a new mom (who happens to be his mother’s younger sister?). I wasn’t completely sold on the heron…

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