samantha

samantha

in the process of transferring all of my reviews from Queue to Letterboxd

Favorite films

  • When Harry Met Sally...
  • Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
  • Moonlight
  • His Girl Friday

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  • Jojo Rabbit

    ★★★★

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★★

  • Flow

    ★★★★

  • Central Intelligence

    ★★★

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  • Jojo Rabbit

    Jojo Rabbit

    ★★★★

    A really great way to wind down from a really great weekend (in Ocean City, of all places). There’s a lot to praise about this film! It’s obviously a film about Nazi Germany, but I was surprised to learn that it’s just as much a coming-of-age story, too — and a really compelling one at that.

    I especially enjoyed the use of different filmmaking techniques to convey tone: the colors and camerawork are candy-like and playful, except when they aren’t.…

  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    ★★★★

    God I love when movies are pretty to look at and colored so deliciously, I straight-up wanted to take a bite out of every shot of this film… 🤤

    Charming, well-shot, and just a little devastating to watch. Something about the character-building in this film really spoke to me. Maybe it only resonates with me because I see myself so plainly in Benji and David, in just how stupid and ugly and messy grief can be. Anticipatory grief — and…

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  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ½

    Legitimately my least favorite watch of the year — but hey, at least I saw it with a group of people I love 🥺 I cringed so hard at points it could have been a stroke and I wouldn’t have been able to tell the difference.

    This movie is the equivalent of being spit in the face. I don’t believe it’s just pure exploitative garbage — which in itself is harmless fun! — because it hits you over and over…

  • Longlegs

    Longlegs

    ½

    I do not rate this lightly; I only have three (now four) films rated this low. Is this the worst thing I’ve ever seen? No. But it is perhaps the worst theater experience I’ve ever had, with very little to redeem it otherwise. I feel as though I’ve been pranked. And I am stunned by the film’s positive reception.

    About ten minutes in I became acutely aware that this was going to be a “style over substance” movie. That would…