Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  La La Land 2016

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 19 Mar 2025

  still hits hard 9 years after its first release in theatres. rewatched this in concert with a live orchestra - so so good. gosling’s performance was better than i remembered. emma stone knocks it out of the park as usual. a modern classic, thank you mr chazelle. there’s really nothing like the movies 💙💛

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  Conclave 2024

  Watched 28 Feb 2025

  a manager whose heart is not in the job anymore has to finish a final big project before he can step down from his role because his boss won’t let him quit 🥺🥲

Popular reviews

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  Kinds of Kindness 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Sep 2024

  an allegory of the film industry? 

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  Early on, Willem Dafoe’s character asks Jesse Plemons to repeat his walk into the room, this time delivering his message (lines) while standing. Dafoe (the Director) is giving direction to Plemons (the Actor) 

  Plemons is unable to commit fully to Dafoe’s directions when it challenges his moral grounds, and hence backs out of the role and is left jobless. In the meantime, Emma Stone is recast as the new actress and we find…

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  The Substance 2024

  Watched 12 Jan 2025

  chickened out 1.5 hours in 🙃 read the rest of the synopsis on wiki and i was like 🙃 kinda thankful i didn’t finish it wouldn’t want those images burned in my mind