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I like my movies like I like my women; good.

Favorite films

  • Napoleon Dynamite
  • Kung Fu Hustle
  • Veer-Zaara
  • In the Mood for Love

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  • Do the Right Thing

    ★★★★½

  • Dog Day Afternoon

    ★★★★½

  • Jaws

    ★★★★

  • Frances Ha

    ★★★★★

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  • Do the Right Thing

    Do the Right Thing

    ★★★★½

    What a flick, honestly. - 1/2 a star for every scene with Rosie Perez. Her five minute intro dance scene + the sex scene have always been deeply unsettling to me. I guess important but I don’t care for it. 

    Outside of that, I guess the major idea is Black rage, Black sorrow, Black joy. Fiercely iconic, so many shots, so many characters, so many lines that stand the test of time. I don’t have the capacity to parse apart the plot, nor do I think I should. 

    And that’s the double truth, RUTH.

  • Dog Day Afternoon

    Dog Day Afternoon

    ★★★★½

    Plane watch. Way way funnier than I remember.

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  • Hundreds of Beavers

    Hundreds of Beavers

    ½

    Didn’t think it was funny at all. Genuinely shocked because so many people (not anyone I actually know) said this was like the funniest movie of modern times. It felt like when someone you don’t know very well tries showing you a 30 minute YouTube video they think is really funny, but it doesn’t make you laugh in the slightest, and the dissonance exacerbates the discomfort. That’s what this was like

  • Frances Ha

    Frances Ha

    ★★★★★

    Absolutely amazing. How joyful!!!!!!!! The whole movie was like an enormous smile, I couldn’t help beaming about it. People have said this movie is awkward, and I could not disagree more. It’s so human!!!

    I felt Frances so deeply! She is me and I am her. I literally saw myself in everything she did. Flatly disproves my girl movie taste take. This was so beautiful.

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