Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Dead Bent 2024

  Watched 16 Feb 2025

  My friend and I made this a couple months back and we just now put it up on Letterboxd. Would really appreciate anyone who’d take the time to watch and log it on here. Let me know what y’all think! I’ll put the link below. Thanks guys.

  https://youtu.be/4_MYsiE-mr0?si=IZp_tZ6pvxoEwOeN

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  All That Heaven Allows 1955

  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Dec 2024 1

  The perfect melodrama. I often find it challenging to write about older movies and classic Hollywood cinema usually due to their simplicity, which on the surface, feels almost too straightforward—too cleanly executed—to unpack in a meaningful way. But that simplicity is a sort of illusion, a deliberate economy of expression that hides deeper layers of nuance beneath its polished exterior. These films rarely indulge in leaps of logic or contrived narrative shortcuts and instead opt to explore emotional complexity in…

Recent reviews

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  Secrets & Lies 1996

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Mike Leigh 🤝 The future cast of Harry Potter.

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  Broken Flowers 2005

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025 2

  There’s so much I wanna say about this movie, but in the end it all boils down to a particular midwestern uncertainty and simultaneous familiarity it ultimately forced me to recognize. There’s an unshakable existentialism that comes from growing up in a place that feels both too small and impossibly vast. It’s the quiet dread of knowing the world is bigger than the one you were given, paired with the gnawing uncertainty of how to reach it—or if you ever…

Popular reviews

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  Anastasia 1997

  Watched 15 Mar 2025 1

  Saw this as a stage play and it was like watching a movie except it was real-life and in real-time and happening right in front of me instead of on a little box in my living room!

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  Sing: Thriller 2024

  Watched 15 Mar 2025 3

  Not even a joke. Just fully serious. Flawless. Breathtaking. Johnny the Gorilla is a sexy hunk and he makes me excited!