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  • Sorcerer
  • Before Sunset
  • Incendies
  • Eyes Wide Shut

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  • Nickel Boys

    ★★★★½

  • Companion

    ★★★½

  • Hereditary

    ★★★★★

  • A Complete Unknown

    ★★★★

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  • Under the Skin

    Under the Skin

    ★★★★★

    100/100

    In the end, we’re all just meat, waiting to be rendered down into our most basic state. Man or woman; attractive or deformed; immigrant or alien — when we’re all the same at some level, perhaps it is our propensity for kindness or violence that sets us apart from all the other meat.

    This rewatch blew me out of the water. It’s one of those films that is so indecipherable that I’m sure what I wrote above won’t make…

  • Tótem

    Tótem

    I’m going to preface this with a quote from this Ted Talk with Ethan Hawke.

    “Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about poetry, right? They have a life to live and they’re not that concerned with Allen Ginsberg’s poems or anybody’s poems. Until… their father dies, they go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart, they don’t love you anymore. And all of a sudden, you’re desperate for making sense out of this life. ‘Has…

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  • Lee

    Lee

    ★★½

    45/100

    This is a film that skates by on two things: the power of real life Lee Miller’s photography and Kate Winslet’s passionate performance. I can understand why this is such an important film to have made, but the execution leaves much to be desired for me.

  • Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

    Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

    ★★★½

    62/100

    Is there a single film that is not immediately elevated by a Philip Seymour Hoffman performance? Miss you every day, king.

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  • Making The Leftovers

    Making The Leftovers

    Stand in for the show

    If David Lynch wrote the Bible…

    Words really can’t describe all of the ways in which this series is beautiful. It completely hijacks your mind, broadening it in ways you never expected, forcing you to confront some of the most pressing questions inherent with existence. I wish my words could do justice to how I really feel about the series, but I’ll just have to affirm it as one of the greatest shows ever made and go from there.

  • Manchester by the Sea

    Manchester by the Sea

    ★★★★★

    100/100

    “I can’t beat it. I can’t beat it. I’m sorry.”

    This film takes a little piece of my heart every time I watch it. To me, this might be the sterling depiction of grief on the screen. The hurt never ends, but that does not mean it has to be the end.