Marissa

Marissa

Favorite films

  • Pride & Prejudice
  • Daisies
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  • Son of Saul

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  • The Noonday Witch

    ★★★½

  • The Wednesday Child

    ★★★

  • A Woman Alone

    ★★★½

  • Body

    ★★★

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  • Avatar: The Way of Water

    Avatar: The Way of Water

    ★★★★

    Was it good? Meh.

    Was it entertaining? Definitely.

  • A Certain Kind of Silence

    A Certain Kind of Silence

    ★½

    I wanted to like this film so much, but the longer it went the less hope I had.
    It relies on overused and obvious genre tropes, has character arcs that aren't fully believable, and draaaags after the first act.
    It's loosely based on a real cult which if they had followed closer instead of relying on the aforementioned tropes, would have made a much more interesting film.

    Also worth mentioning that they play real footage of a child being spanked…

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  • Nocturnal Animals

    Nocturnal Animals

    I hate this film so much. The male self-victimization, the layers of misogyny, the sexualizing and objectifying of the corpses of female victims and then acting like the surviving, unscathed man is the victim.

    I'm going to write a long-ass review on why this movie is a piece of shit and Tom Ford is a misogynistic psychopath on a day when I have time to be angry.

    If you've ever read Laura Mulvey's essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" and…

  • Lost in Translation

    Lost in Translation

    ★★½

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