Favorite films

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  Frances Ha 2012

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 24 Jan 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Happy Together 1997

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 06 Jan 2025

  so genius. made up of perfect, continuous micro-stories about control, commitment, communication, jealousy, and so much more. it’s dense with meaning and feeling. this time it really hit me that it’s just as much about confronting the ugly parts of a relationship as it is about confronting the ugly parts of yourself. the bickering is very charming too.

Popular reviews

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  Babylon 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Jan 2023

  such a joyously intense experience!! its pace fluctuates through different levels of frantic—it pushed and pulled me closer and further from the characters and action in just the right moments for me to always be so present in the story. i love how theatrical the dialogue is. i love how the camera whips and dollies and jolts around each scene. i love how briskly it moves past bombshells of disturbing information in a The-Show-Must-Go-On kind of way. it knows when to slow…

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  The Fabelmans 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Jan 2023

  the dialogue is so satisfyingly rhythmic, the camera moves with a wonderfully staggering energy, and the piece as a whole is so generously earnest and so thoroughly cinematic i couldnt help but let it Take Me completely. the fablemans owns me and i am forever in its possession. accomplishes everything it wants to accomplish with mastery, but more importantly, love!!!! glad to be adopted by the movie the fablemans looking forward to the rest of my fablemans-owned life.

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