Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Blue Valentine 2010

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  this movie means so much to me

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  Amadeus 1984

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  One of my favorite moments in Amadeus occur when Salieri's overwhelming hatred begins to dissolve into a kind of worship, a strange mixture of awe, regret, and love when asisting Mozart in writing his final piece, the Requiem Mass. He starts to see Mozart not just as a rival but as a truly divine force, someone capable and worthy of creating compositions that seems to come directly from God. Salieri’s internal conflict reaches a crescendo here, where the feelings of…

Popular reviews

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  3-Iron 2004

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 12 Mar 2025

  visual love letter to silence and yearning

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  Adolescence 2025

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Adolescence is an incredible exploration of the toxic masculinity that young men are indoctrinated into today, offering an unflinching portrayal of how societal expectations shape male identity. The show delves into the normalization of harmful behaviors, making it clear that toxic masculinity isn't just an aberration, but a system embedded into the very fabric of modern society. It navigates into the pressure young men face to conform to narrow, damaging ideals of masculinity, and the destructive consequences that follow when…