Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
I am going to have to come back to edit this review and practically write a love letter to this film. It is the one show that has struck my heart so deeply that when I hear Hikaru Utada’s “First Love,” I immediately think of Yae’s words: “I’m sorry I lied. I like you a lot. I have always felt that way.” And then I’m there, sitting in the car, my airpods wedged so deep they’re about to grow roots…
Watched this twice in IMAX when it first came out in 2014. Was absolutely enthralled — with the exception of Hathaway’s love monologue which took me out of my trance briefly — and found myself smitten with so much of the film: McConaughey’s charisma, the repetition of Dylan Thomas’ poem, the score, the twists.
Then I got into a conversation with a friend who shot the film down the second I’d brought it up: “It’s not entirely scientifically accurate.”
My…
This is my favorite film of all time. Having a 3.8 on here is criminal lmao. I’ve shown this film to countless people and it’s always a banger so someone here is lying 💀.
This is *the* film to usher in the start of summer. When it came out in 2014, its marketing budget must have been small because I didn’t hear of it until 2016, and many others still haven’t heard of this film. But it’s got Tom Cruise…
One of my fav films - it caught me at a somber time during the pandemic when what I needed most was to feel like going nowhere was still going somewhere.
I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there.
--Leonard Shelby, Memento
Nolan really went there and curved the storyline, bent time and memory, to construct a riveting and gripping cinematic rollercoaster.