LauraBirnbaum

LauraBirnbaum

Proud writer/editor/contributor for FilmInquiry.com, cigar aficionado, suspense enthusiast, relentless optimist, and lover of all things

Favorite films

  • American Beauty
  • Spirited Away
  • Vertigo
  • The Witch

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  • Speak No Evil

    ★½

  • Appendage

    ★★★½

  • Who Killed Garrett Phillips?

    ★★★★

  • Midsommar

    ★★★★★

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  • Speak No Evil

    Speak No Evil

    ★½

    I think it's time we reconsider the way child actors are used in film, particularly when it comes to visual depictions of child abuse and/or traumatic occurrences therein. I find it especially cruel to put a child on a film set and call them to act in direct response to (what I consider to be) horrific circumstances.

    I truly wanted to like Speak No Evil, but it lost me 2/3 of the way through. I awarded it 1.5 stars for…

  • Appendage

    Appendage

    ★★★½

    This was bad and I liked it

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  • The Little Hours

    The Little Hours

    ★★★★

    We, as a society, really need to start giving Nick Offerman more castles.

  • Holy Hell

    Holy Hell

    ★★★★½

    Spoiler: he wasn't God after all.