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  7 Days 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Jan 2025

  Oh, to be stuck in a house with Geraldine Viswanathan....

  You'd think this was a misnomer, but this was a really charming COVID movie, one which examines a couple wildly different things I have not seen in movies before in that incredibly anxious early COVID period (to reiterate: this movie is cute & nice, somehow) & young Indian-Americans navigating the idea of arranged marriages. Both leads are good in this and I just think it's a nice time overall. The final chunk…

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 31 Dec 2024

  The main thing I took away from this is that although his movies aren't altogether that similar in content, Eggers is just so good at creating an atmosphere that is so stifling and oppressive that it overwhelms. And I loooooove that about this (and the others too). A piece of media that makes me feel any emotion that viscerally (on a non-meta level -- hating a movie does not count, you do not get bonus points for being worse than…

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  The Zone of Interest 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 31 Jan 2024

  Well, here we go! I have tried and failed to write about this a few times, and I have put it off a few times more (hard to overstate how much I've thought about this movie since seeing it nearly a week ago), because there's just so much that I want to say but the technical quality and obviously the subject matter of this film make me really want to get it right, which I probably won't!

  First things first:…

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  Strange Darling 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Aug 2024

  "Any movie where we're just vibin' in the woods is already off to a great start" - me after watching Good One a couple hours before this.

  Me starting this movie: okay this does NOT count as vibin', run girl!

  Willa Fitzgerald, wow! Kyle Gallner, also good! For a couple of actors I'd never heard of before (sorry), this is one of the overall best-acted things I've seen this year, and I think that really sells it. Very well-shot (whatever…