Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Manchester by the Sea 2016

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  "You can't just die."

  authentically miserable. 138 minutes of bottled up emotions.

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  Love & Mercy 2014

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  ive been a casual beach boys fan since about middle school so im very biased about this movie. i even did a biography essay in like 8th grade about brian wilson. finally got around to watching this.

  paul dano captures the eccentric genius of brian wilson so well, the scenes of him in the studio are so magnetic. the "God Only Knows" scene was giving the beach boy fan in me chills. john cusack, on the other hand, i wasnt…

Popular reviews

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  Synecdoche, New York 2008

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 06 Mar 2025

  "What was once before you - an exciting, mysterious future - is now behind you. Lived; understood; disappointing. You realize you are not special. You have struggled into existence, and are now slipping silently out of it."
  
  the end is built into the beginning. 

  pretentious. self-indulgent. narcissistic. abstract. ambitious. messy. disjointed. confused. repressed. disgusting. depressing. unforgiving. forgotten. pathetic. heartbreaking. human. scared. dead.

  a warehouse inside of a warehouse inside of a warehouse in terms of densely packed themes and narratives…

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  Mulholland Drive 2001

  ★★★★★ Watched 11 Feb 2025

  "You're in both dreams and you're scared."

  i wanna rewatch this movie 500 times and also never again.