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Recent reviews

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  Looking: The Movie 2016

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Feb 2024

  A balm—a quiet, bittersweet one at that—for my weary and often grumpy heart. My bf and I couldn’t make it through a single episode without commenting on how frickin’ handsome Murray Bartlett is. And whenever he was draped in neon lighting… baby we were done for 😩

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  Romeo + Juliet 1996

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Jan 2024

  Miraculous — and I say that without a trace of irony. I was prepared for the aesthetic excess (I have yet to watch a Baz Luhrmann movie I wasn’t on board with), but I was totally sideswiped by the ways that excess transforms into undiluted, uninhibited emotion. I love how much these children (Juliet, Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio, etc.) cry, I love how tactile they are with each other in moments of joy and death, how they view each other as…

Popular reviews

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  Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Dec 2017

  Why were shirtless Kylo Ren's latex pants so high-waisted though

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  Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Feb 2018

  The kinship that developed between myself and the 60 senior citizens watching this in the theater as we all sobbed during the last 10 minutes was truly life-affirming