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  • If These Walls Could Talk 2

    ★★★★½

  • Close

    ★★★

  • Eighth Grade

    ★★★★

  • I Believe in Unicorns

    ★★★★

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  • If These Walls Could Talk 2

    If These Walls Could Talk 2

    ★★★★½

    I love this movie.


    I loved the portrayal of queerness and the liberation, or, entrapment that came with it over the years. 
    Let me tell you the first part of this film was like a horror film and just so painful but i really liked the way it was juxtaposed by the cheerfulness with the other two stories.
    The costume and set design was so so good and accurate of the time period and i liked the detail of ‘no…

  • Close

    Close

    ★★★

    This is what the movie made me think: 
    ‘We don’t chose who we love, how we love, where we love, when we love, or why we love, it just kinda happens, and we just kinda let it happen. But when it’s gone we realise what it was and we almost fully understand what we couldn’t presently in the love.  How can we lose people, but never lose out love for them, how can they be gone forever, but leave their…

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  • Eighth Grade

    Eighth Grade

    ★★★★

    Never have i ever seen a movie set in middle school where the main character who is socially awkward, conventionally unattractive, and just weird, survive the duration of the narrative without some kind of make-over. This film ends with our protagonist, Kayla, looking exactly the same, and even acting the same as she did at the beginning of the film. I guess the make over was more internal. By the end of the movie she gains confidence, but in a…