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Favorite films

  • Ikiru
  • Macario
  • Interstellar
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire

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  • The Assessment

    ★★★★

  • On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

    ★★★★

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • The Accidental Getaway Driver

    ★★★

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  • Short Term 12

    Short Term 12

    ★★★★½

    Strengthens my desire to foster and care for those who have been left behind. To express empathy and kindness to those battered by a cruel world. To open myself up and be vulnerable to another person, and to be there for them when they need me the most. 

    So many of us are scarred by the journey we currently find ourselves in, and it’s terrifying to express that pain to others. The fear and embarrassment that envelopes within you, slowly…

  • Emilia Pérez

    Emilia Pérez

    ★★

    I give this movie two stars for great lead performances from Zoe Saldana and Karla Sofia Gascon but that’s as far as my plaudits can go for this film. I like when films try to be unique and really swing for the fences, but this was so poorly handled in its messaging and execution that I’m aghast that this is seriously being considered as a potential Best Picture nominee. 

    This definitely feels like a movie where a French person wrote…

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  • Killers of the Flower Moon

    Killers of the Flower Moon

    ★★★★★

    Another masterpiece from a legend of cinema. Scorsese lets us know that he is still at the top of his game even five decades into his filmmaking career. 

    “Killers of the Flower Moon” may just be Scorsese’s most essential film yet, as he retells the tragic story of the Osage nation and the brutality incurred to them by the greed of white men. It is a hard film to stomach, with gorgeous shots of wide sprawling prairies and greenery that…

  • Ghostlight

    Ghostlight

    ★★★★

    A powerful portrait of a family enveloped in grief, and their journey in overcoming the darkness and coming out the other side stronger than ever before. 

    Kelly O’Sullivan gives us a film that looks small in scope, but is precise in its emotional contouring, with brilliant performances from all the main cast, especially Keith Kupferer and his real life daughter Katherine.

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