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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Feb 2025

  This car is very you.

  Anora plays like the most astonishing of tightrope acts: a screwball tragicomedy that balances its myriad tones with effortless control. Baker calibrates the piece with an expert blend of hyper-sensitivity and audacity, often in the same scene; for all the freneticism of the first half, the totality of Ani's journey hits like a freight train by the time its extraordinarily heartbreaking finale arrives. Madison is towering in the role, commanding the screen from beginning to…

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 May 2024 1

  It's like we were in love.

  Challengers crackles with electricity from its opening moments, all the way through to that absolute all-timer of a finale. I love tennis, I love hot boys, and I love Zendaya, so I already had extraordinarily high expectations for Luca and co.; conveniently enough, he just so happened to deliver his best film to-date with this one.

  He's already proven himself a master conjurer of cinematic sensuality, time and time again, but what Guadagnino’s done…

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2025 1

  You could never please me as he could.

  I hungrily lapped every single bit of this up. For the past decade, no one's done it quite like Robert Eggers, his obsessive attention to period detailing just relentlessly awe-inspiring. His virtuosic eye—guiding Blaschke’s truly astonishing lens work (the lighting alone...!), Lathrop & Brentnerova’s remarkably tactile production design, and Muir’s sumptuous costuming—breathes such decadent, festering life into a tale as old as time. I vividly remember the incredulous response to Lily-Rose's casting here,…

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Mar 2025

  Jealousy is a disease, remember that, Diamond! I'm just gonna go chill in my mansion or whatever, you know, no big deal!

  My god, I love this movie. I really do think it might be the best Best Picture winner yet—of my lifetime, at (the very) least. An immaculate achievement, on all fronts: performance (Mikey actually taking home the Oscar [just as I correctly predicted 😇] was like a dream come true, but, man, the entire ensemble is superlative), Baker’s direction,…

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  Elizabethtown 2005

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2020

  I will miss your lips and everything attached to them.

  Tonally, Elizabethtown is bananas. It’s got an exercise bike-turned-suicide machine; an unrelated, unexpected death; Paula Deen; a multi-day, 24/7 wedding reception; Susan Sarandon doing both stand-up and tap dancing routines at the memorial service for the person who unexpectedly died...i.e. her husband...and, keep in mind, I’ve left *out* a lot? But! Somehow! It really does work. The soundtrack is (no surprise) divine, Kirsten & Orlando have stupendously good chemistry, and, overall, I…

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  Little Women 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Dec 2019 6

  Life is too short to be angry at one’s sisters.

  Greta Gerwig's Little Women is the dictionary definition of a "treasure"; it is, simply, exquisite in every way. I have regarded Louisa May Alcott's immortal text as my all-time favorite book for almost two decades now, and this faultless adaptation already means so much to me after one single viewing, my brain isn't quite sure what to do with itself.

  It is, at once, a perfectly crafted time machine back to…