Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Ratatouille 2007

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 03 May 2024

  Gaslight: Linguini
  Gatekeep: Skinner
  Girlboss: Remy

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  House of Gucci 2021

  ★★ Watched 28 Nov 2021

  every day I weep for what could have been had ryan murphy gotten his gay little mitts on this screenplay instead of ridley scott

Recent reviews

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  Shame 1968

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 19 Mar 2025

  We’ll have children when the war is over. 
  We’ll never have children. 

  God damn. My introductory film class at U of M was structured so we would focus on a particular director and study their films. In my semester, it was Ingmar Bergman, which was a lot for someone only just starting to really dip her toes into cinema. This one in particular I absolutely hated when I watched it for that class 10 years ago. Tonight was my first…

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  Hour of the Wolf 1968

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 18 Mar 2025

  Holy shit. I know for a fact I watched this in college but I really didn’t remember much about it. Obsessed with the editing in this. So disorienting. And with all extremely due respect and reverence to Roger Deakins but I don’t think any cinematographer has ever done it like Sven Nykvist. Oh my god damn. These shots are so gorgeous and so terrifying.

Popular reviews

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  The Straight Story 1999

  ★★★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Oh my god… I truly wasn’t expecting to be so moved and love it this much. I cried through pretty much the whole thing. What a beautiful film. It was SO heartfelt while never feeling cheesy or overwrought. Every single emotional beat lands. Angelo Badalementi’s score killed me. I didn’t think it was possible to make midwestern farmlands look that beautiful. This was the last David Lynch movie I will see for the first time. Feeling lots of emotions now.

  52 week challenge, week 11: Lead role actor over the age of 70

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  Merrily We Go to Hell 1932

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  “Oh, Joan, you’re crazy.” “If you say that word to me once more, I think I’ll kill you.” And by god she would be right to do it! Alexa, play Cell Block Tango from Chicago. 

  God damn, that was good. I love old movies that tackle heavy subject matter like this, and Arzner’s direction had some really interesting flair and you didn’t often see in this time period.

  52 week challenge, week 10: directed by a woman