Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Blue Valentine 2010

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Jun 2024

  to me, love’s true power doesn’t rest in the moments of unbridled joy between partners, but in how they’re able to handle the strikes thrown at each other by the person they know the best. love will never be perfect as it is deeply human, people mess up; breach your trust, throw jabs that feel like a blade piercing you heart, there will be petty quarrels that escalate into arenas of bloodlust. what can you forgive? what can you forget?…

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  Out of the Blue 1980

  ★★★½ Watched 03 Nov 2024

  how do you live? when the walls are already caved in, nothing but black pervades the mind — where do you go? this is the perspective of cebe, a 15 year-old looking for a place of freedom; an escape. living through a life of constant tumult stemming from unflinching abuse from all sources of authority, she thinks that the world is ready to be taken on too soon, and comes to find that maybe it wasn’t possible from the start.…

Recent reviews

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  Rocky 1976

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Aug 2024

  the rocky franchise is one that i've always been familiar with, episodes 3 & 4 slotting themselves into my meager childhood canon. rapid in pace, garish in form they were everything that the original rocky wasn’t. it was this reason that i always avoided the original when my dad had it on; limiting myself to bits and pieces, but never finishing the whole thing. now, at a much older age, i finally sat down, took it all in, and see it…

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  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 08 Dec 2024

  there’s not been a film that has destroyed me the way this just did.

Popular reviews

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  Saltburn 2023

  ★★★ Watched 22 Dec 2023

  it’s pretty ridiculous but if you turn your brain off for 2 hours, you’re in for a fairly entertaining watch
  (barry keoghan)

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★½ Watched 08 Dec 2023

  im confused. i honestly hardly knew what to expect with this film, but given that im a fan of the lobster and the favourite, the fabulous cast, and the massive acclaim it has received, i thought i would be blown away. i was not to say the least.

  besides the immense disappointment, im so frustrated with this film because its poor things has shades of brilliance: emma stone is stunning (!); the costumes and set design are sublime; the cinematography at times heavenly. the…