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  • The Life List

    ★★★★½

  • La Dolce Villa

    ★★★★

  • Trap

  • Shiva Baby

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  • The Life List

    The Life List

    ★★★★½

    I’ll be so for real I cried (almost but I was watching this with my family so ofc had to keep it in). 

    -had to watch this because Sofia Carson 
    -family movie
    -life movie
    -figure your shit out movie
    -death movie
    -some friendship and love too
    -some humor gems in there

    Something so patient and unhurried about this 2 hour movie that I love. Could it have been crushed into an hour and a half? Yes but it needed to…

  • La Dolce Villa

    La Dolce Villa

    ★★★★

    This is one of those movies Maya said I should put on here even though I only half watched it. But actually I had so many thoughts watching this movie
     1. This outfit that this daughter is wearing features flowy jeans bomber jacket and sweater making this the most realistic young twenties ish outfit I’ve seen in a film to date. Notably this made her feel more like a real person to me and I appreciate that. 
    2. This girl…

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  • Anora

    Anora

    I just watched this with my good friend Maya (it is now 5 am)

    I watched this as a portrayal, exploration, depiction of a crazy situation—an experience for the characters in the movie and for me as a viewer. This is the lens I like to see movies through :)

    After the last scene cut I wanted to get a second opinion of what I just watched so of course I came to read some reviews, some positive some negative…

  • In the Heights

    In the Heights

    ★★★★★

    A friend introduced this to me as her favorite musical, the only preface I got was “I can’t describe it it’s just so much better watching this as a non white person” needless to say I was intrigued (from the perspective of an Asian American). 
    Real talk this showed me a perspective of community I had never encountered in suburban Missouri and I’m grateful for it. 
    Movie wise I loved the attention to lighting and texture and how the camera…

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