Maddie

Maddie

Favorite films

  • The Age of Innocence
  • Zodiac
  • The Place Beyond the Pines
  • Fight Club

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  • Dinner in America

    ★★★★★

  • Precious

    ★★★½

  • Trap

    ★★★★★

  • Working Double

    ★★★★★

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  • Dinner in America

    Dinner in America

    ★★★★★

    Uncle Simon has dirty finger nails like the dopers in my DARE book.

    I watched this movie over the phone with my real boyfriend, who had seen the movie once before in theaters. I did not expect to fall in love with this one so deeply and so instantly. From the beginning, the characters were so well-established, it felt like they had lived lifetimes before arriving to us on the screen.

    The point of this movie that might draw the…

  • Precious

    Precious

    ★★★½

    You need to forget about that school shit and take your ass down to the welfare.

    Precious is a period piece if I’ve ever seen one. I remember watching the trailers for this as a kid and thinking, Wow, this looks intense. Watching it now with the benefit of hindsight (and a lot more knowledge about America’s socioeconomic dumpster fires of the early aughts), it hits differently.

    On one hand, Precious provides a harsh portrayal of those living on welfare,…

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  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens

    Star Wars: The Force Awakens

    ★★★★★

    I went on a lil movie hiatus before watching this so its sorta surreal and difficult to review at the same time. But here's some comments:

    1. I had to pee through this entire movie but I could never forgive myself if I missed even 2 minutes.

    2. JJ Abrams did a great job of modernizing, but not destroying the very things that make Star Wars Star Wars. I might even say that he picked up on and fixed a…

  • Eyes Wide Shut

    Eyes Wide Shut

    ★★★★

    gonna be honest, my least favorite Kubrick flick.