Athena

Athena

Favorite films

  • A Knight's Tale
  • My Cousin Vinny
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

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  • Blue Velvet

    ★★★★½

  • Janet Planet

    ★★★★

  • Sing Sing

    ★★★★★

  • Longlegs

    ★★½

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  • Blue Velvet

    Blue Velvet

    ★★★★½

    First lynch movie and it was iconic! I get the hype

  • Janet Planet

    Janet Planet

    ★★★★

    Beautiful western mass vignette!

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  • Longlegs

    Longlegs

    ★★½

    I keep having different feelings about this movie! At first i found it terrifying (I’m a scaredy cat to be fair)—a classic spectrally-attuned intelligent young woman alienated from others due to trauma traipsing her own unraveling, unknotting her destiny for evil or inherited curse from some wickedness she’s opted into story always gets me good. And then the utter descent into satanism in the final act didn’t help (ie it did the thrilling work a thriller is supposed to do).…

  • Maria

    Maria

    ★★★★

    Stunning performance by Angelina. Heartbreaking in a way that I haven’t felt from a movie in a long time, as it contended with mental illness, trauma, aging, being irrevocably separated from your older and more capable self, and the abandonment that can come with these things, especially as an older woman seemingly unmoored from (but in some respects, suffocatingly tethered to pieces of) her past. I think the focus on Callas’ autumn, her final years cooped up in that musty…

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