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Favorite films

  • La La Land
  • It's Such a Beautiful Day
  • Another Round
  • Parasite

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  • The Monkey

    ★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★½

  • Clue

    ★★★★½

  • There's a Man in the Woods

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  • Joker: Folie à Deux

    Joker: Folie à Deux

    ★★★★★

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

  • It's Such a Beautiful Day

    It's Such a Beautiful Day

    ★★★★★

    Made this little essay a while back using my old review in part, so enjoy why I believe this movie is so important:

    Even upon a rewatch I don't fully understand the movie, but you know what that's alright. The beauty in it's simplicity of the everyday and the everyman, seeing simple things bring joy and pain to Bill as we see his life, or maybe not his life, unfold in it's final moments. Or maybe he's dead and we're…

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  • The Monkey

    The Monkey

    ★★½

    Considering the insane talent backing the movie and it being based off of a short Steven King novel, I thought this was going to be the next best final destination clone, but I was instead left incredibly disappointed. The first act starts off rather strong with it's initial premise of a killer monkey toy and the sheer insanity that follows it, but as the story unravels the poor dialogue and writing really starts to creep through until it drags this…

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★½

    Bong Joon Ho once again proves himself to be an absolute filmmaking legend with Mickey 17, his most ambitious project to date. It marks what I believe is his second time working with an English cast, and you know he had to go all out for this film, which payed off massively. In typical fashion it follows themes of class divide and fascism, two areas Bong Joon Ho has explored many times. He does so in a much more upfront…

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  • Past Lives

    Past Lives

    ★★★★★

    Once in a while you stumble across one of those films, a slice of life that's an exaggerated yet grounded portrayal of the highs and lows of life, a rollercoaster spread across 24 years here as we see two people, connected by past and future lives learn that in this one. they simply weren't meant for each other. It's in this depressing reality that they can accept their life and move on, living out their current one even if it's…

  • Barbie

    Barbie

    ★★★★★

    Barbie is an absolute fever dream, it's insane and goofy but so energetic and fun, full of comedy and a shocking amount of heart. The movie definitely transforms throughout, changing just what I thought the movie was going to be about into something a lot more impactful and shockingly deep at times, dealing with existentialism and what it means to live, all while we're in this quote unquote perfect world of Barbieland that's extremely pink and plasticky with an uncanny…