Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Dune 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Oct 2021

  Actually was consistently surprised by the plot the entire time!! The DETAILS! Love a dope book adaptation!!! (although I never read the book. but I can tell, based on the amount of complex detail in the writing, it was based on a book).

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  Marie Antoinette 2006

  ★★★ Watched 31 Oct 2021

  I love Sofia Coppola for being unapologetically herself. Her films are strangely touching and worship such specific aesthetics and for that I appreciate her. But they also lack some level of … deep diving that I usually like in a film. In some ways she refuses to penetrate the inner worlds of her characters. It almost feels like it’s out of respect for them. But its not always my jam.

Popular reviews

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  The French Dispatch 2021

  ★ Watched 05 Nov 2021

  SOMEBODY TAKE AWAY WES ANDERSON’s BUDGET 

  I’m convinced that if we limited him to like $50,000 he would actually try to remember how to write a plot. I’m shocked that people liked this. Yes it was a love letter to the New Yorker and French cinema And blehdjegeh vfl dlejcioskwxbkdie who actually gives half a shit. It was a plotless waste of million dollars of set design, and apparently no one in Wes Anderson’s life is allowed to give him…

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  The Farewell 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Jan 2021 1

  This movie brought emotion in its purest form.

  It didn’t follow the obvious western plot line of the young American protagonist going against her family’s wishes and spilling the secret because she believes it’s *the right thing to do*. It posed the idea: we have no idea what the right thing to do is. Tell someone they’re dying ? Or shoulder that burden for them, so they don’t have to? The main character’s uncle tells her that western thinking is…