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Favorite films

  • Son of Saul
  • TÁR
  • Catch Me If You Can
  • The Florida Project

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  • The Handmaiden

    ★★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • I'm Still Here

    ★★★★

  • Knives Out

    ★★★★½

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    countdown starts now for Rob Pattinson's Oscar because wow

    as always, regardless of how I feel about the intricacies of the film, Mickey 17 is incredibly smart, with beautifully crafted characters. Especially looking at the juxtaposed duos of Mickey 17 & 18, and Kenneth Marshall & Ylfa. Seeing how these two people interact as one in such a complex and different way is fascinating. And of course the anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist themes will always make me smile

    all of Bong Joon-ho's English films…

  • Janet Planet

    Janet Planet

    ★★★★½

    This was exactly what I expected from Annie Baker's debut film

    All of Annie Baker's writing niuances are on display - the long pauses, intimate dialogue, and what critics might call a lack of plot. But Baker has this wonderfully tender way of explaining the world of the film that makes everything larger than life. You can see that in her past work as well, her body of work is filled with sprawling scripts full of existentialism and self-discovery, but…

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  • The Handmaiden

    The Handmaiden

    ★★★★★

    Park Chan-wook really is the king of sex and violence bc the sex scenes are wayyyy too long


    Gianluca asked if I’d ever seen this and I immediately sat us down and turned on the tv

  • I'm Still Here

    I'm Still Here

    ★★★★

    It’s really fucked up to make me cry that much on the Flixbus to NYC

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  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

    Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

    ★★★★★

    Within the first 5 minutes I realized that this was an all time great, and just hoped that it would hold up through the runtime, and it did. I was crying and sobbing and bawling multiple times through the film, much to the dismay of everyone else in the theatre, sorry guys! What I loved most about this story was that even though the subject matter is entirely fictitious and unreal, the characters could be transplanted into real people, and…

  • Star Wars

    Star Wars

    ★★★★★

    had betsy applauding and praying on her knees and laughing and sobbing and learning about feelings and rooting for evil and being an R2-D2 stan and dancing in the cantina and being cured