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Favorite films

  • Marie Antoinette
  • Safe
  • Titanic
  • Princess Mononoke

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  • Smile 2

    ★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • Flow

    ★★★★½

  • The Monkey

    ★★★★

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  • The Monkey

    The Monkey

    ★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Nickel Boys

    Nickel Boys

    ★★★★★

    I saw this a few months ago but posting my review now for posterity.

    Truly impressive that such a technical and meticulously constructed film can use the language of film to completely erase the boundaries between viewer and protagonist. I had never really thought so much about how the camera distances viewers from the subjects portrayed. Traditional cinema can indulge in violent imagery with a certain remove. In Nickel Boys, the camera looks away during the most harrowing moments, to…

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  • The Boy and the Heron

    The Boy and the Heron

    The most unstable and fluid animation I’ve ever seen in a Miyazaki movie. Much like the animation style, this film is always shifting and transforming, moving between past, present, and dream states. At times I felt overwhelmed that I couldn’t piece together all of the different parts of this story, by the end I felt silly for even trying to do so.

  • Beau Is Afraid

    Beau Is Afraid

    ★★★½

    Honestly embarrassing for Ari Aster to make this kind of a mommy issues movie

    Kinda still love it though