Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest 2025

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Ncuti Gatwa most charming beautiful magnetic human being alive!!!! what a campy funny silly time!!!! i just know oscar wilde would be thrilled that his play about heterosexual nonsense would be turned into such a gay romp 130 years later, as it so deserves

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  Magnolia 1999

  Watched 26 Feb 2025

  first rule of child wrangling on set is that if a kid says they have to go to the bathroom, you take them to the fucking bathroom 

  crazy how paul thomas anderson invented andrew tate 25 years earlier

Popular reviews

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Oct 2024

  i keep thinking about how Ani would have brief moments of contact with other workers -- cleaners, hotel employees -- and you could tell that she felt more aligned with them than she ever could with these reckless billionaires, even after she married one. how she found herself being so callously used and discarded by the mega wealthy, who never once cared to think about how the actions of a childish boy would ruin her life.

  i see so much…

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Jan 2024

  ~arthouse barbie~

  as i've sat with this one it's been hard for me to grapple with. overall, i like it! it's a good movie! poor things is a sumptuous visual feast, with some of the best aesthetics and technical filmmaking of the past few years, and superb acting from everyone involved (particularly emma stone!!). lanthimos is easily one of the most interesting working directors, and screenwriter tony mcnamara has always delighted me with his undeniable humor tempered by genuine, complex…