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  The Virgin Suicides 1999

  ★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  "Coming to hold collective memories of times we hadn't experienced, we felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy... We knew that they knew everything about us, and that we couldn't fathom them at all."
  Lux's escape into dating-hood being the closest it came to raw emotion. young adults are still guilty of that.
  i shouldve watched this when I was younger , not knowing much about the girls other than their…

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  The Watcher 2022

  ★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025 2

  boring

Popular reviews

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  Manhattan 1979

  Watched 07 Feb 2025 1

  I initially played this thinking it’s a love letter to New York , for ny lovers.
  as the film went on, it felt like a critique of the cultural ego and the pretentious intellectualism people lean on to sound sophisticated (sometimes guilty of it myself). 
  Then, a quick calculation of Woody Allen's age versus his girlfriend's age during filming made me see it in an entirely different light. this is basically Tarantino asking Salma Hayek to stick her foot in…

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  Gladiator II 2024

  ★★½ Watched 10 Nov 2024 1

  this feels like Ridley Scott needed money and AI generated this script .
  Somehow those scenes reviving past songs or quotes from Gladiator were enjoyable but a bit cringe at times .