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Favorite films

  • Her
  • The Substance
  • Mean Girls
  • Mulholland Drive

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  • I'm Still Here

    ★★★★½

  • Bicycle Thieves

    ★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • Nickel Boys

    ★★★★½

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  • Queer

    Queer

    ★★★★★

    At times, Queer feels like the perfect lovechild of Guadagnino's previous works, Call Me by Your Name and Suspiria.
    It takes the tenderness, the longing, the heartache, and vulnerability of Call Me by Your Name and mixes it with the psychedelic visuals, the sound design, and the dreaminess of Suspiria.
    The result may be ambitious, but to me, it all worked. Queer is a touching, thought-provoking film about loneliness and the ache for human connection, told in a way I've…

  • Emilia Pérez

    Emilia Pérez

    ★★★½

    Emilia Perez is an experience, in the best and worst possible way.

    Let's start with the flaws of this film. The story is messy as hell, it feels bloated, as there are 4-5 storyline that could all be a movie of their own. I also had some problems with the depiction of the trans experience in the film. It was way too focused with the idea of a medical transition than with all the other aspects of being trans that…

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  • Some Like It Rare

    Some Like It Rare

    ★★★★

    Save a horse, eat a vegan

  • The Cellar

    The Cellar

    ★★

    Σ(all horror tropes) ≠ good horror movie