Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Gattaca 1997

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Jan 2025

  sometimes i think this may be a perfect movie. tight plot, incredible score, and beautiful production design & costuming. uma thurman’s character is giving pradaaa

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  Wicked 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Dec 2024

  singing was great…but honest question, what happened to beautiful, colorful, bright, spunky, whimsical musicals with heart?? tbh i find myself a little disappointed because my expectations were SO high

Popular reviews

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  Barbarella 1968

  ★★★½ Rewatched 18 Apr 2024 3

  ITS MY BIRTHDAAAAAAY 

  no jizz this year, but i still decided to give myself a little cinema treat. it’s funny how as soon as i got letterboxd pro i promptly stopped watching and reviewing movies. oops!

  anywayyyy it was so lovely to see this juicy, campy space adventure. the production design was SO imaginative and perfectly packaged the essence of the space age and retro-futurism in a candy-colored, fur-lined spaceship. 

  the plot is…tenuous at best but!!! who needs plot when you have…

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  The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Jan 2022 2

  Criterion Challenge 2022: #2 1920s

  this was so astonishing.

  i decided to try again with the criterion challenge this year, and i want to feel less fear about testing these grand films out. i always get nervous before watching these big titles because they have a lot of prestige, and because i’m just a super casual watcher and not a film scholar or anything, i don’t want to walk away missing the Big Message or having the nuance go right…