HannahBurn

HannahBurn

Favorite films

  • Lady Bird
  • La La Land
  • The Florida Project
  • Waves

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  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    ★★★★★

  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    ★★★★★

  • Barbie

    ★★★★★

  • Lady Bird

    ★★★★★

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  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    ★★★★★

    hunger games: the glee version

  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    ★★★★★

    whoever pitched those snow puns certainly isn’t hungry because they ate

  • Barbie

    Barbie

    ★★★★★

    "I want to do the imagining, not be the idea"

    This film powerfully articulates the joys and strifes of womanhood, the absurdity of gender roles and tired stereotypes, and how girlhood - despite its temporality - lives within women. And masterfully it did all of this under the guise of playtime.

    We were children when we learned what was lady-like and what was boyish; training in girlhood as if it was something we had to work for in order to…

  • Lady Bird

    Lady Bird

    ★★★★★

    There is great beauty to be found in monotony.

    An unparalleled, skin-to-skin intimacy is curated by Gerwig as she tilts her lens onto a picture of youths restless kicking legs.

    To the naked eye Lady Bird is perhaps a little directionless, lapsing in plot and pace as it dawdles alongside a punchy teenager to the soundtrack of suburbia. But I believe, that restive need for action is precisely what Gerwig is critiquing here. That burning, yearning thing inside of us…