liamoconnell

liamoconnell

Favorite films

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Spirited Away
  • Your Name.
  • La La Land

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  • Princess Mononoke

    ★★★★½

  • A Fistful of Dollars

    ★★★½

  • John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum

    ★★★½

  • The Fugitive

    ★★★★

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  • Princess Mononoke

    Princess Mononoke

    ★★★★½

    Hell yea dude animism rocks

  • A Fistful of Dollars

    A Fistful of Dollars

    ★★★½

    I loved the score. It often felt like watching a Shakespearean play.

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  • My Neighbor Totoro

    My Neighbor Totoro

    ★★★★★

    The older I get, the more I fall in love with this movie.  It’s beautiful down to the last frame and warms my heart and puts me to tears at the simplest of gestures.

    It takes me back to watching this as a kid and how I want to show this to my kids.  I feel so warm and cuddly, it’s a treat to watch this.  There are some movies that I feel like writing entire essays about, and this…

  • Barbie

    Barbie

    ★★★½

    Super fun except for the parts where it seems like a Chevy commercial because holy fuck was that embarrassing.

    Surprisingly, a lot of the comedy moments landed for me, but only a few of the serious moments landed. It had too much tonal whiplash in some elements, and the human mother and daughter characters were useless to the entire movie.  A lot of gender commentary, but came off as too millennial girl-bossy at times.

    Greta Gerwig continues to confuse me.…

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