Maria Meléndez

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rewatchable trash >>> cinematic one-offs

Favorite films

  • Anora
  • Dune: Part Two
  • The Brutalist
  • The Substance

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • Nickel Boys

    ★★★½

  • The Assessment

    ★★★★

  • SNL50: The Anniversary Special

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  • Home Alone

    Home Alone

    ★★★★★

    🏠 Annual tradition to wake up Christmas morning and watch this with the kids as the rest of the family watches casually from the dining room - coffee and tamales all around! 

    Dubbed in Spanish (obviously) because Mi Pobre Angelito brings my family together. 

  • Practical Magic

    Practical Magic

    ★★★★

    📖 I’m like all girls, obviously I loved this!

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  • 12 Angry Men

    12 Angry Men

    ★★★★½

    👨‍⚖️  There was never any doubt this was going to end the way it does, and yet I was all in as each new piece of information unraveled and a new vote was called up. 

    It’s equally fascinating and daunting that a film so grounded in reality feels so fictitious and that a six-decade gap still feels ahead of our own time — a world where one person is willing to stand up to the majority, combing through every detail…

  • Scrooged

    Scrooged

    ★★★★

    🎄 As a complete sucker for modern retelling of classic stories I cannot believe it took me this long to watch this! Officially part of my go-to holiday classics.  Four stars on a first watch only because my brain won’t let go of Matthew McConaughey and Emma Stone as Ghost of X Past (🙂‍↔️).