Derek

Derek

Favorite films

  • Black Swan
  • Phantom Thread
  • The Worst Person in the World
  • Anora

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  • The Worst Person in the World

    ★★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • Heretic

    ★★

  • Conclave

    ★★★★

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  • The Worst Person in the World

    The Worst Person in the World

    ★★★★★

    I feel so seen by Julie…. Her being THAT deeply afftected by Seasonal Affective Disorder… not to mention I relate to her every move and word… like when she smelled that random guys armpit at a party I screamed out loud

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    I love having fun❤️ i don’t think i’m fully sold on this one but regardless…. its pretty tough to resist. I smiled a lot!!

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  • Queer

    Queer

    ★★★★★

    Unbelievably gorgeous! Baby I’m ruined, disembodied down. Yes the door is open, and I’ll scream it - why would you ever look away? It begs us as viewers to not make the same mistakes Lee has. To not take everything spoken as truth, but instead to value what is unspoken. This silence loses all potency once spoken into something that could never exist. In each of the film’s closing chapters, Guadagnino reminds us of this prickly truth in a way…

  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★★★

    Seen at SIFF in 35mm

    As a longtime admirer of Sean Baker’s vision and frankly beautiful commitment to telling stories left untold, I was so eager to witness his next story. Just a few minutes into the sprawling, poetic “Anora”, I knew I was watching his best project yet. Baker has a knack for packing so much emotional weight into seemingly inconsequential sequences-- his characters are walled, likable, unlikable. They’re distant, and somehow relentlessly close. Anora is the most dynamic…