karaswider

karaswider

Favorite films

  • Rear Window
  • Dirty Dancing
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Tombstone

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  • Kingdom of Plants

    ★★★½

  • March of the Penguins

    ★★★★★

  • Reagan

    ★★

  • Carterland

    ★★

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  • March of the Penguins

    March of the Penguins

    ★★★★★

    what a rollercoaster. “For thousands of years they’ve taken on the same journey but each a different path”. This documentary has everything - love, partial monogamy, Morgan freeman, death, drama - its a win for seabirds.

  • Reagan

    Reagan

    ★★

    Missed a lot of important details and convention speeches but we all know this was just a Dennis Quaid ego thing

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  • High Society

    High Society

    ★★½

    The cast carries this film and I think that’s the whole point; I watched this for Grace Kelly, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, and Bing Crosby. It’s the first time I’ve seen Sinatra in a film that wasn’t a Rat Pack Special. I wish there was a platform that I could listen to these guys sing where it was just audio files instead of a movie. 

    The film itself is a great collection of talent from the styling to the basis…

  • The Other

    The Other

    ★★★★

    Brilliant. The mirror shot and final scene are so good. The cigarette case deserves its own deep dive analysis. Maria is poetically trapped in her inability to be content and becomes a walking reflection of her ego and sin. The irony of fate comes full circle. He’s a GOOD man Maria.  

    Siempre me gustan movies con tramas de vanidad y la fragilidad de la felicidad. Highly recommend reading the other reviews for this movie that go in-depth into the themes. I…

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