Manuel Alanis

Manuel Alanis

i fall asleep watching movies sometimes but i kinda like them anyway

Favorite films

  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Before Sunset

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  • Dead Poets Society

    ★★★★½

  • Conclave

    ★★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • Companion

    ★★★½

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  • Dead Poets Society

    Dead Poets Society

    ★★★★½

    had watched it in the pandemic and recalled almost nothing; its quite fantastic! i wish we got a little deeper into the characters heads but thats just different sensibilities in different times, we get about as deep as we used to in that time. deep enough that every emotional beat worked for me. its really sad and touching, one of those movies that, if watched at the right age, could legitimately inspire you to make changes in your life. im…

  • Conclave

    Conclave

    ★★★★★

    rewatched, this time in the theater with my partner. we both absolutely loved it. i obviously still have my ideological reservartion/concern with it, but the experience was much better. i was really locked into the drama and the tension and all of the emotions of that lead performance especially. what an excellent production, screenplay, cast, and directing job! by the end you feel appropriately relieved and hopeful.

    abi said that the movie was great some 10 times in the hour…

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  • Lady Bird

    Lady Bird

    ★★★★★

    movie goes by real fast and is really good

  • Conclave

    Conclave

    ★★★★½

    technically speaking one of the best of this year, filled with beautiful photography and electric performances all around really. i wasnt expecting to be this as much of a political thriller as it was, which, for me, is simultaneously a good thing --because it allows itself to be more poignant with its potential interpretations--, and a bad thing --because a mainstream movie trying to be political will almost always be just a sad liberal fantasy, which is mostly ok, but…