Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Tea with Mussolini 1999

  ★★★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  “are all american women as exciting as you?”
  “alas, no.”
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  did not realize this was slightly a true story, which makes me love the movie even more. luca is freaking adorable, did i think he needed to be obsessed with elsa? no. did i think lady hester was extremely annoying? yes, but i did like her little redemption at the end. did i love judi drench as an eccentric art preserver? absolutely.

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  “the abyss calls out.”
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  really incredible performance and i did not see that ending coming. so sad ralph didn’t win anything for this. curious on the church’s thoughts on this movie

Popular reviews

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  The Red Shoes 1948

  ★★★★★ Watched 07 Oct 2023

  “you shall dance and the world will follow.”
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  gorgeous gorgeous movie. the beauty of the red shoes ballet with the editing and sets and costumes and the journey it took you on is beyond compare

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  Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Jul 2023

  “your life will always matter more to me than my own.”
  “you hardly know me!”
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  i can’t even process the brilliance of this movie. that was the most on-edge i’ve ever been when watching a movie for the first time. it felt simultaneously the shortest and longest movie i’ve ever watched. every detail was so beautifully crafted, from angela bassett hanging on the wall in cia headquarters to ethan’s authentication code remaining the same as it was in the…