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  • The Wrong Trousers
  • TÁR
  • The Adventures of Robin Hood
  • All About Lily Chou-Chou

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  • The Lighthouse

    ★★★½

  • John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum

    ★★★

  • The Front Line

    ★★★½

  • Your Name.

    ★★★★½

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  • The Lighthouse

    The Lighthouse

    ★★★½

    a movie about the existential horror that befalls men when they can't fuck. probably wish I had followed it a little better but I'm glad stuff like this gets made

  • John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum

    John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum

    ★★★

    there's a fight in what can only be described as a "knife museum"

    honestly so much about this film is a slog: the detailed workings of the "high table" are always much better as a mystery than an actual thing to watch.

    but there's also a fight in a knife museum. there's a knife museum fight

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★

    This one's for the monsterfuckers!

    Something kind of refreshing about seeing a Dracula adaptation so thoroughly do away with subtext, beating out even Coppola for how achingly sexual this film gets. Dracula's always been a metaphor, but at times it's felt like a bit of a reach to explain to people who haven't read it closely what's going on. This film says it plainly: the vampire is hunger, is desire itself, and thus is also death. Everyone is drawn to…

  • Jaws

    Jaws

    ★★★★

    it's always cool to go see a film everyone agrees is great and go... oh. yeah. this rules. like, that score really is the best ever. spielberg really is the goat. it's exactly as good as you'd think.

    but delightful that besides all the iconic things I knew, there were still surprises! I didn't know beforehand that hooper was a sassy nerd! I didn't realize what a drama queen quint was! (I'm surprised I haven't seen more comparisons with him…

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