"Obviously, Doctor, you've never been a 13-year-old girl"
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Death of a Unicorn 2025
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This was a film for Jenna Ortega, and she delivered! I appreciated that it had some Mikckey 17 elements in that rich people are just absurd and hyperbolic, but it's also too real. Fun watch.
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Nightbitch 2024
I love Amy Adams. I hated the ending. Really profound portrayal of motherhood. We need more movies like this.
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The Virgin Suicides 1999
The most iconic line in cinematic history, for me, comes from the opening of this film: “Obviously, Doctor, you’ve never been a 13-year old girl.”
When I first watched this in my younger years, it was everything. As someone who grew up in a sheltered religious household with all sisters, I saw myself in these sisters. Watching this years later, some of the lines resonate with a stinging accuracy: “ We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way…
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8½ 1963
I know I’m supposed to like this because it’s the classic Fellini film you’re supposed to like but the macho bullshit is too distracting. A grown man navel gazing about his infidelities and creative blocks through various dream sequences that lead to nowhere... I can’t tell if this is meant to be a piece about a man who wants to become a better person, but it’s more about a man who’s like “yeah I’ve fucked a lot of women.. but…
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