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  Companion 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Feb 2025

  A delightful film. I know some people thought the trailer gave too much away but there were still a lot of surprises. I know some people wanted it to be grislier or whatever but I don't really feel like all ai-girl movies need to be that - this movie was basically aiming for the romcom version of Ex Machina and on that it delivered! Also delivered on being one of my favorite highly specific genres - shygirl playing dumb but is actually super clever and agential. As a Yellowjackets fan, I'm always ready for Sophie Thatcher running around in the woods. Good 4 her !

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  The Menu 2022

  ★★½ Watched 31 Jan 2025

  it's the emoji for me

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  American Psycho 2000

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Dec 2024

  This movie made me realize that Kristen Stewart went to the Chloe Sëvigny school of acting and line delivery

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  Sleeping Beauty 2011

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Dec 2024

  If you take the story literally, this film ages extremely poorly. If you can experience the narrative as a metaphor or more abstractly, it's a beautiful, tender story about agential passivity, perverse passivity, objectifying passivity, perceived passivity, bored passivity...all the passivities. Emily Browning plays opacity and quietness with subtlety and complexity. Between the uneasy/disturbing literal narrative and the beautiful things happening on a conceptual level, I feel unsettled by this film's aesthetics and politics yet find myself relating to narrator's vulnerabilities and modes of being (perhaps rather indulgently).

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