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Favorite films

  • Seven Samurai
  • Dune
  • Your Name.
  • Arrival

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  • Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

    ★½

  • Problemista

    ★★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • Ne Zha 2

    ★★★½

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  • Treasure Planet

    Treasure Planet

    ★★★★★

    So many things... A literary and fantastical epic, riddled with earnest humanity, tinged by genuine consequences, and undaunted by the weight of its sprawling universe. The fact that this masterpiece lay dormant and dusty on the lowest shelf of the Disney catalogue will always wreck me. Perhaps we were just too young when we first saw it and let it sink unawares into the background noise of new-millennium CG adventures, turned over every two years by a newer, more expensive diversion…

  • Your Name.

    Your Name.

    ★★★★★

    Every now and then, when I wake up, I find myself crying. I can never recall the dream I just had, but... the sensation that I’ve lost something... lingers.

    This movie is everything. Shinkai’s life’s work has brought him to this mountain and enabled him to scale it fearlessly and carry us up with both nuance and urgency. This is one of the most joyous and heart-wrenching movies I’ve ever seen, real or animated. Shinkai weaves together the threads of disaster, cosmos, religion and…

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  • Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

    Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

    ★½

    at no point can I tell you what this movie was actually about. Stinkyyyyy

  • Problemista

    Problemista

    ★★★★½

    don’t yell at ME about FileMaker pro I am AN EXPERT!!!!!

    Update 5 days later … adding a whole star bc I can’t stop thinking about the million little things I loved in this 🫶

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  • In This Corner of the World

    In This Corner of the World

    ★★★★★

    What was supposed to be a life-affirming palette cleanse turned into one of the most devastating experiences this side of Grave of the Fireflies. Yet unlike GOTF’s gut-punching misery, This Corner of the World keeps finding new reasons to wake up in the morning, to smile, to wonder, to hope and to dream. 

    Don’t think for a second, however, that such optimism will spare you the horror of reality. I was not prepared for the imagery in this film. A particularly tragic…

  • Umma

    Umma

    83 minutes of Fred Armisen in a wig screaming “I AM YOUR MOTHERRRRRR” would’ve been a stronger film