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Favorite films

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  • Nacho Libre
  • Your Name.
  • Black Panther

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★★★

  • Novocaine

    ★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★½

  • The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2

    ★★★★★

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★★

    A well made web of lies that changes your mind every second. Perfectly paced, written, and acted I was not bored for a single second.

    They were lucky it wasn’t a blue bag cuz the world is not prepared for that.

  • Novocaine

    Novocaine

    ★★★½

    numb the pain numb the pain numb the pain numb the pain

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  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    ★★★★½

    i tend to gravitate towards movies that feel like they’re made with love and passion, and this movie is oozing with charm.

    you can feel the intent with every piece of dialogue, every shot, and the piano accompaniment after a joke that made me laugh, or an interaction that tears me up.

    it has painfully real themes of grief, pain, and burdens which brings attention to the idea of how we don’t realize how good we have it sometimes. 

    i’m…

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

    I don’t mean to parrot those movies critics who mostly have the same thing to say about this movie, but I agree with them.

    The Brutalist comes out swinging with a near flawless part one that had me thinking it was going to be my favorite movie of this year. However, in that second part, I kept thinking to myself why did they do that? It had SO much potential to go a completely different direction, but they took it the…

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