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worlds most normal movie enjoyer

Favorite films

  • Sound of Metal
  • True Stories
  • Cabaret
  • Princess Mononoke

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  • Raise the Red Lantern

  • The Prestige

    ★★★½

  • Universal Language

  • Conclave

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  • Raise the Red Lantern

    Raise the Red Lantern

    lotsa thoughts and deeply transformed by gong li’s acting…have been thinking a lot about women’s agency in film

    where do we draw the line in depicting gendered oppression and reproducing it?

  • Universal Language

    Universal Language

    beautifully absurdist and deeply personal love letter to flyover towns…reminds me how all small cities have their own local commercial jingles that becomes a stimmy trigger for all residents

    …SAVE BIG MONEY AT MENARDS

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  • I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★★½

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

  • The Prestige

    The Prestige

    ★★★½

    “magic tricks all have extremes, but there is so often some movement of the trick that requires sacrifice…or the commitment to killing off your whole self so that another version of you can live for an audience’s approval”

    -hanif abdurraqib, a little devil in america