Bennett

Bennett

Favorite films

  • True Grit
  • Beau Is Afraid
  • Whiplash
  • Little Shop of Horrors

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  • The Wild Robot

    ★★★★

  • Armand

  • Lurker

    ★★★★½

  • Remember Me

    ★★★★½

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  • Lurker

    Lurker

    ★★★★½

    A cautionary tale in just chilling tf out

  • Remember Me

    Remember Me

    ★★★★½

    Schizo in the best way

    “I want you to fuck me until I’m both dead and alive. But I eat breakfast with my dad at 9, so could you come earlier? Maybe 7:20?”

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  • Plainclothes

    Plainclothes

    ★★★★½

    I really struggle to care about romance films. Love is such a private, subjective, and in many ways arbitrary experience and, as a show-don’t-tell medium, movies imo just aren’t an easy art through with to explore how people feel it. So generally movies standardize it to shit like “well she fills his X deficit/need and he fills her Y deficit/need and that’s why they work”. Maybe I’m a sociopath but I don’t tend to empathize with screen romances so I…

  • Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)

    Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)

    ★★★★

    Extremely proud to be a Bruin after this one

    Did not think this would be my type of movie, but it was masterfully done and I found myself consistently moved by things I expected to remain stonefaced through. 

    Also, a 3 act structure told through 4 isolated vignettes is such a cool puzzle to have nailed.

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