elliegeo

elliegeo

Favorite films

  • The Florida Project
  • Moneyball
  • Tinker Bell
  • The Big Short

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  • It Ends with Us

    ★★

  • Anatomy of a Fall

    ★★★★

  • Mean Girls

    ★★★

  • All of Us Strangers

    ★★★

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  • It Ends with Us

    It Ends with Us

    ★★

    A drama that's (surprisingly, confusingly) wrapped in rom-com packaging.

    At first glance, everything about this film screams rom-com. Genre tropes are everywhere, from the straight-out-of-Wattpad character names (Lily Blossom Bloom, Ryle, Atlas), the glistening establishment shots of Boston, and even the Taylor Swift soundtrack. Don't question how a florist can afford Louboutins or a storefront in Back Bay; romance is not about real life, it’s about aspiration. (Don't YOU want to be a tight-bodied, golden-haired florist who wears designer clothes…

  • Mean Girls

    Mean Girls

    ★★★

    Stop trying to make TikTok happen, it’s not going to happen! 

    (Or maybe it will? Karen’s sexy Halloween choreo was actually really good)

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  • Poor Things

    Poor Things

    ★★

    Is this really what Yorgos Lanthimos thinks women’s liberation looks like?

    At the film’s end, Bella feels content to just lounge about, reading philosophy from the luxury of her mansion. What about the scene in Alexandria, where exposure to extreme poverty causes Bella intense moral panic? Did the film forget about that moment?

    All I see is a rich girl who learns about injustice through travel, makes a naïve and ultimately meaningless attempt to fix it, then retreats to her…

  • Saltburn

    Saltburn

    ★★★

    I saw every bodily fluid