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Favorite films

  • Elizabethtown
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Clouds of Sils Maria
  • An Easy Girl

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  • The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • The Brood

    ★★★★

  • Walkabout

    ★★★

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  • The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

    The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

    thin, stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    i was really affected by this; it fits the moment in 2025 for me. the almost sacred respect that mickey has for kindness shown to him in the first and last moments of his repeated lives made me think about a line from Life and Fate where the author is describing the russian front in ww2: "even at the most terrible times, through all the mad acts carried out in the name of Universal Good and the glory of States,…

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  • Barbie

    Barbie

    ★★★

    if you're gonna make a movie about barbie it may as well be this one. it was funny, especially the mansplaining and the horses. but it's limited in the points it can make. i don't think immediate forgiveness for the kens is restorative justice, and i don't think it matters how many barbies are on the supreme court if they are all amy coney barrett barbie or marjorie taylor greene barbie. but it's a solid comedy except for will ferrell who isn't funny at all.

  • Wicked

    Wicked

    As a series of bright colours and loud noises; magnificent. As a piece of art; meaningless.

    it was impossible to believe in any of the character conflicts because everything was so polished. they're so excited about the set design, the school uniforms, the endless rows of choreographed extras, the snowflakes at the nightclub and the rotating shelves in the library, but none of it has any meaning for the story. for a movie about origin stories, we don't spend a…