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Favorite films

  • The Big Lebowski
  • The Piano
  • Amélie
  • Pee-wee's Big Adventure

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  • Hereditary

    ★★★★★

  • Opus

  • Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

    ★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

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  • Opus

    Opus

    High school screenwriting final project vibes. Maybe worse.

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★

    Lots of swings in this movie—some hits, some misses.

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  • Call Me by Your Name

    Call Me by Your Name

    ★½

    Ohhh boy. Here we go. I wanted to like this movie. I thought that I'd love it. I thought it would be a modern-day A Room with a View (which happens to be one of my very favorite films (and I was so thrilled to see that the screenplay was written by James Ivory himself!)). I wanted a movie about love and beauty and art and pain. And, for the entire film, I tried to convince myself that it was, indeed,…

  • The Return of Martin Guerre

    The Return of Martin Guerre

    ★★★½

    The Return of Martin Guerre is an incredibly hard-to-find movie. My mom has been enthusing about it for ages, and *finally* I got my hands on it (virtually, anyway). Thanks, Kanopy!

    It is an exceptionally-rendered period piece that highlights the absolute isolation and ignorance (not necessarily in a negative sense) of people in the Middle Ages. Of course, the costumes are perfectly drab and the set design is accurate right down to the cups on the tables. But what really…

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