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Favorite films

  • Moonlight
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc
  • Time
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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  • Luca

    ★★★★★

  • The Animal Kingdom

    ★★★½

  • Snowpiercer

    ★★★

  • Embrace of the Serpent

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  • Perfect Days

    Perfect Days

    ★★★★★

    Beautifully resonate, Perfect Days folds you into a warm hug smelling of cleaning supplies and old books. 

    You spend so many days with Hirayama, waking up and going to bed alongside him,     his life starts to feel like your own. 
    The repetition is never rushed, taking us to that moment when Hirayama opens the door, steps out while raising his joyful face to greet another day, and renewing us by proxy. 

    An intentionality to engage life and it’s richness, that is my abiding lesson I hope to take with me from this lovely film.

  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★★

                       The Messiah is rizzen’ 

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  • Luca

    Luca

    ★★★★★

    Immaculate world building, delightful art direction, and the cutest end credits. Loved that the sea-people had Italian names and mannerisms despite having no “connection to the surface world.” The vibrant colors and the adorableness 
    of every freaking character was just 10/10. 
    Also, Luca’s little (day)dreams were so fun!
    The whole thing was so lovingly and beautifully done. The idea of not only being your own person but education’s power to open the world up to you is seriously compelling. 
    I…

  • The Animal Kingdom

    The Animal Kingdom

    ★★★½

    Kinda mixed on this one. I thought it looked really good, was impressed by the VFX, and could appreciate some of the ideas they were trying to get at. Unfortunately, there were a lot of things on the table and the film struggled to make a strong statement in any specific direction. Although I did think the exploration of “othering” and the many ways we do it to each other was well done, but found it difficult to go to…

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  • Perfect Days

    Perfect Days

    The shining power of transforming day-to-day monotony into intentional routine. 💛💛💛💛

    Kōji Yakusho might just be the handsomest man in the whole world.

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    Honored to share a name with one of cinema’s greatest living actors. 
    Fun return for RobertPat and Bong Joon-ho after 3 and 6 years respectively. I enjoyed this and had a good time throughout. 
    My favorite parts were when Nasha’s relationship with (the) Mickey(s) was allowed to shine. They were cute and I liked how they showed up for each other in distinctive ways.
    Despite how much I fun I had, I felt that the ending dragged a little and…