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Favorite films

  • Aftersun
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Amélie

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  • Blue Velvet

    ★★★★

  • Snakes on a Plane

    ★★★½

  • Hamburger Hill

    ★★★½

  • Lost in Translation

    ★★★★½

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  • Past Lives

    Past Lives

    ★★★½

    So unflinchingly sincere. A film that is underscored by a saccharine yet mournful melancholia, reproducing that hyper-specific feeling of being in love - both with a memory, and within one. And that indescribable swell of your heart in the comfort knowing that you were destined to be bound to someone truly special, if not in this life then certainly the next.

  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower

    The Perks of Being a Wallflower

    ★★★★★

    The greatest coming-of-age film ever made for introverts. I never got to experience doing acid at a Christmas party, or going to a Sadie Hawkins dance, or getting mixtapes with Asleep by The Smiths on them twice - but I've never felt as seen with other high school dramas quite as I have with this one. I'm eternally grateful that I had my Sam and Patrick and Mr Anderson; they took me under their wing and gifted me such wonderful…

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  • Aftersun

    Aftersun

    ★★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Mysterious Skin

    Mysterious Skin

    ★★★★½

    I'm breathless. Memory is such a powerful thing. What happens when our innocence is abducted? When our caregivers fail us? When we're sent into an everlasting shock that we never quite break out of? How malignant abuse can be! What we endured as children appears to us now as murky silhouettes, repressed sensations, and a direly injured subconscious. Our body shuts down, refusing to re-live that tessellation of pain and loss.

    With the gorgeous, hazy shoegaze that foregrounds Brian and…