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‘cuse film ‘25

Favorite films

  • Do the Right Thing
  • Le Samouraï
  • La Haine
  • Perfect Days

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • Warm Bodies

    ★★½

  • Paddington in Peru

    ★★★½

  • Consent

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  • Breakfast at Tiffany's

    Breakfast at Tiffany's

    ★★½

    Lots to unpack here. Starting this off by saying I watched this with my grandma, who calls this her favorite movie and actually watched it at Radio City Music Hall when it first came out and recalls even then being uncomfortable by Mickey Rooney's character, and noted that at the time people were outraged by the fact that Hepburn's character was a "call girl" and not something more respectable...

    The inclusion of Mickey Rooney's Mr. Yunioshi is absolutely atrocious. Not…

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    there’s a 10/10 cut in here somewhere, but Director Bong settled for a louder and more urgent 8/10 one

  • Warm Bodies

    Warm Bodies

    ★★½

    there certainly were some editing choices made in this one...

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  • The Fabelmans

    The Fabelmans

    ★★★★½

    It’s really no surprise that I loved The Fabelmans. I’m an aspiring filmmaker, having been enthralled by the medium of film for much of my life, and it’s really interesting to see just how much Sam Fabelman’s attraction to the art form parallels my own, not to mention that I’m also Jewish and an Eagle Scout. But my connections to Sam aren’t the only reason I was so touched by Spielberg’s latest.

    Probably the part that stuck out most to…

  • Even the Rain

    Even the Rain

    ★★½

    I've been let down by so many films for my Settler Cinema class, and for a moment I thought this might just break the streak. The film within a film context provided the opportunity to turn the white savior trope on its head, but instead the film itself ended up perpetrating it.

    There were so many interesting characters that would've been better protagonists as opposed to the cookie-cutter director and producer dude who spent the majority of the film arguing…