Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Blink Twice 2024

  ★★½ Watched 28 Jan 2025

  sorry to my girl zoe, but i’ve seen this movie before and done way better. the only shocking thing about is that it never managed to surprise me even once.

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  Turtles All the Way Down 2024

  ★★★ Watched 24 Jan 2025 1

  listen, i was a john green girl in high school. have i out grown his stuff? yes. do i still enjoy it in a nostalgic way? yes.

Popular reviews

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  My Own Private Idaho 1991

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Nov 2022

  i watched this the night before my birthday. i always like the last and first movies i watch when turning a year older to have some symbolic significance on the year past and the year to come, and i usually spend hours fretting over finding the perfect film. as much as my own private idaho is about the disenfranchised and the false promises of america, it is also about the spaces we carve out in our heads and our hearts…

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  Shithouse 2020

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Oct 2020

  shithouse, in all its specificity, felt so profoundly personal that i couldn't believe it wasn't made just for me. basically, i loved it. not unlike alex, I'm a kid from texas who left my very cozy life in austin to go to film school across the country and learn how to stand on my own two feet. cooper raiff crafts a tender and honest portrayal of the growing pains of that first year of college - the loneliness and uncertainty…