Marina Burton

Marina Burton

Favorite films

  • Space Jam
  • Hackers
  • Speed Racer
  • Uncut Gems

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  • Matilda

    ★★★★

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    ★★★★

  • Fantastic Mr. Fox

    ★★★½

  • Mobile Suit Gundam

    ★★★½

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  • Matilda

    Matilda

    ★★★★

    i was born in 1992. i fully should have been aware of this movie when it came out. i have no clue how it didn't end up on my radar. it would have altered the trajectory of my young and impressionable life. i would have been introduced to another young kid who gets lost in books and is capable of complicated mental math and has to go to a comically punitive private school. i think the key difference between us…

  • Fantastic Mr. Fox

    Fantastic Mr. Fox

    ★★★½

    used to be one of my favorite movies of all time, and i still like it a lot, but 15 years after seeing it for the first of many times it remains the only wes anderson movie i've ever seen and i think it's probably going to stay that way.

    the parts that are good are tremendous. mark gustafson, the animation director, deserves just as much credit for how beautiful this movie looks and feels as wes anderson does. probably…

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  • Love Live! The School Idol Movie

    Love Live! The School Idol Movie

    ★★★★★

    i refuse to give my girls anything less than five stars.

  • Holes

    Holes

    ★★★★½

    a truly perfect storm. the writer of one of the most beloved children's books of the modern era agreeing to adapt it to screen himself. a group of kid actors with insane chemistry that bursts from the screen. sigourney weaver as the villain in a kids movie. eartha kitt chomping a pipe and casually cursing families for generations.

    this movie treats linear time as a suggestion rather than a law and is better for it. it effortlessly hops between timelines…