claire ☽

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this is a paddington stan account first and a place to keep track of my film-watching habits second!

Favorite films

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Crimson Peak
  • Lost in Translation
  • My Best Friend's Wedding

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  • The Departed

    ★★★★½

  • Taxi Driver

    ★★★½

  • I'm Still Here

    ★★★★

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★

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  • Pickman's Model

    Pickman's Model

    ★★½

    there’s always that one guy in art school

  • Petite Maman

    Petite Maman

    ★★★★★

    tiff #1

    “you didn’t invent my sadness.”

    the past, present, and future intertwine in petite maman, resulting in a coming-of-age film that wraps you in its arms and tells you that everything will be okay.

    sciamma gets straight to the point; few words are spoken for the profound messages that are conveyed so seemingly effortlessly, especially with such a short runtime. faced with goodbyes, hellos, goodbyes, and hellos again, nelly walks us through a portrait of a family, childhood, grief,…

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  • The Departed

    The Departed

    ★★★★½

    this was so crazy I wish Boston was real

  • Barbie as The Princess & the Pauper

    Barbie as The Princess & the Pauper

    really crashing out about how much that horse looks like timothee chalamet

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  • The Hollow Crown: Henry V

    The Hollow Crown: Henry V

    ★★★★

    tom fucking hiddleston I love u bitch

  • Do Revenge

    Do Revenge

    ★★½

    Kind of a gen z Mean Girls meets A Simple Favour. It was fun, but it felt all over the place and some of the performances felt disconnected from the tone of the movie at times. There were some good jokes and campy moments that I really enjoyed, but there was also a lot of dramatic moments that felt shoehorned in— if it had embraced the campy aspects more, I think it would have been stronger! 

    Also I generally hate to…