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Stuck in Love 2012
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“Here's a confession... I'm not a great writer... I'm a great re-writer.”
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This film feels like an encapsulation the holiday season and how fall to winter transitions can feel both joyful and like mourning. All at once, you are transported into the entangled lives of family, vulnerability, and their different approaches to love. I found the juxtaposition of siblings Samantha and Rusty to the shadow of their parents dynamic very interesting given the film being released in 2013.…
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X 2022
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“I will not accept a life I do not deserve”
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TI West’s X has phenomenal cinematography and some self-awareness to its levels of gore, but I can’t say this is one of my favorite psychological thriller films. There are definitely themes of desirability politics, women’s sexual repression, and purity culture, but I don’t know if the potential was fully tapped into. Also, I would’ve left my watch differently if some of the filming and dialogue came from a…
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Jazzy 2024
“Growing up is ugly”
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Most of the girlhood films I’ve seen focus on high school or college, but Morrisa Maltz’s take on youth through pre-teen eyes, middle school, and cultural tradition is refreshing. She doesn’t feel the need to add grandiosity or spectacle. It’s highlighting the mundane, frivolous questions, and real-time anxieties of Jazzy and Syriah that made me feel seen. I was left reflecting on the memories of years that used to feel so emotional and world-altering…
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The Photograph 2020
“I didn’t know much about photography when she started taking pictures, but I knew I liked the way she saw me. Better than I really was.”
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“Being unhappy and jaded, it’s comfortable but . . . I like him, and… maybe I’m not who I thought I was. Maybe I’m different with him.”*:･ﾟ✧ ♡
There’s distinct films that are more emotional for me the second-watch, and any time after I fall more and more in love. The Photograph…
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