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I mostly like movies about fancy ladies with lots of swooning

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All That Heaven Allows 1955

★★★★ Added

Even more than Sirk's other melodramas of the 1950s - with maybe the exception of 'Written on the Wind' - 'All That Heaven Allows' is thought of in auteurist or Marxist terms, mostly because of Fassbinder's more subtle and ultimately very different reimagining of the story in the 70s. Obviously, 'All that Heaven Allows' is a movie about the emptiness of postwar consumption, and the cruelties people do to others and themselves out of fear of social exclusion. The beautiful…
Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994

★★★★ Watched 27 Dec 2020

As part of our ongoing (read: constant, but limited to three films) Hugh Grant retrospective, we revisited Four Weddings and a Funeral to confirm once again its charm and total superiority to The Runaway Bride, which I guess I saw at the same time when I was like six because I have trouble differentiating.
In brief: Kirsten Scott Thomas is almost unbearably chic; the black gown and sort of art-deco seventies-revival jewellery she wears to the third wedding is like…

Children of Men 2006

★★★½ Added 1

Everyone stops having babies for no rason? It's just not realistic...
I, Tonya 2017

★★★ Added

fun, but not as fun as it thinks it is...