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Recent reviews

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Dec 2024

  I watched this on the plane. I really like this movie and it reminds me of call me by your name in the way that it speaks to some of the inevitabilities of human experience. I also really like how Na Young/ Nora felt kind of unreadable until the very end. I feel like we knew how Hae Sung felt but Nora was sort of an enigma and I think the complexity of the situation and her character really highlighted the full depth of the emotions involved. I also like how it was filmed very slow and simple. Beautiful

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  Carry-On 2024

  ★★★ Watched 24 Dec 2024

  On the edge of my seat

Popular reviews

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  Before Sunrise 1995

  ★★★★★ Watched 30 Dec 2023

  As always, thank you annabel!! 

  I think I consume a lot of semi intellectual or emotional media and literature and almost all of the time when something moves me I am able to identify what about it spoke to me and why it spoke to ME. This movie is beautiful and I love Richard Linklater, and it was very well done, but at the end of the day, it made me feel something and I don’t know why. And that…

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Dec 2023

  I absolutely loved this film. It was irreverent, it made me laugh and cry (as most do) and it surprised me time and time again. I think magical realism was necessary to the storytelling. However, I would have loved to see more of a friendship element in the relationships that make her re conceptualize her place in the world, I feel like aside from god and her French friend and her friend on the boat, the other ones were in…

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