jake p

jake p

Favorite films

  • The King of Comedy
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • The Master
  • The Green Knight

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  • Good Morning

    ★★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • The Sound and the Fury

    ½

  • The Rules of the Game

    ★★★★

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  • Good Morning

    Good Morning

    ★★★★½

    incredible that a film with stakes this low had me absolutely glued to the screen by the end. deadass teared up and felt the weight of the world come crashing down when she says “he said good morning!” at the end.

    is suburbia doomed to always produce abject antagonism and a dissolution of social cohesion? maybe not! maybe there’s hope tucked away in every little corner. something something Heidegger said about our being-in-the-world is predicated on the mundane and repetitive tasks. idk i don’t feel like finding the exact passage but you get the gist. wonderful film that just feels good to watch.

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    needed more mickey

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  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    ★★★★★

    (don't expect this to be coherent)

    a film i desperately want to hold my hand, but i fear it would take my outstretched hand and promptly throw me off a cliff

    i felt as if it wanted me to figure it out so bad, but at the same time didn't give half a fuck what i thought

    so many scenes elicited the exact same emotional response as a therapy session

    the dinner scene felt like its own movie especially with…

  • Barbie

    Barbie

    ★★★

    It's really rare I think a movie is bang-on average not because of it being overall "meh" but instead because it has a near equal mix of things I absolutely loved and things that just did not do it for me at all.

    LOVED:
    -Margot Robbie is of course stellar
    -Every single Ken line had me tweaking, Ryan Gosling was easily my favorite part of this movie
    -Pretty much anything with Barbieland, it all looked great and most of the…

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