"I am a happy person. I have everything. I have a rent-controlled apartment people would kill for. I have a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful job. Guess who I called the other day: Isaac Singer! He won the Nobel Prize! I know lots of famous writers, editors, publishers. I organize the most prestigious reading series in New York. And I have plenty of friends, women who are doing tremendous things with their lives and don’t need a man to make them feel…
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Crossing Delancey 1988
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Anora 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The moment the camera starts focusing more on Igor's reactions to what's happening to Anora, you say to yourself, "This movie is gonna end with her crying on his shoulder, isn't it" and then it FUCKING DOES. In a way that is so much worse, with a scene so embarrassing it feels like it inspired The Weeknd to write another song about "his girl working through the night with tears in her eyes" or whatever.
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Lovely & Amazing 2001
I wish I had sisters. And also wish my mom had more daughters, so she could have someone to go to when I am not there. So we could all look each other and say, "Yes, you have the same insecurities and 'issues' as I do, isn't that fun?" But when you are an only daughter, I think for your mom, you can either be a savior or a huge disappointment.
My mom once said to me, "I always wanted…
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Avenues 2017
A 2010s movie with a score by Michael Cera and a heavy Whit Stillman influence, about twenty-somethings wandering around New York??? I mean...Call me a nostalgic millennial because I am seated.
Two things I particularly didn't like about this: 1) The main character having a mini existential crisis while being three years younger than me (who is kind of still having the same crisis) and 2) the movie reminding me that, as you get older, the kind of life-changing nights…
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