Favorite films

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  Paddington in Peru 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Feb 2025

  Paddington was kind of giving no sabo kid, which I found BRAVE

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Feb 2025

  The girls (cardinals) are fighting!!

  This was so visually interesting and had a lot to say about the modern church (vapes! iPads! email intrigue!) and how it fits into the world around it. I did find the ending, and the mechanisms that get us there, were less interesting to me than some of the other interpersonal dynamics on display.

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  Megalopolis 2024

  ★ Watched 11 Oct 2024

  Things this movie reminded me of:
  -A student film
  -Telenovelas
  -Shakespeare plays done in a modern setting
  -A musical except there’s no musical performance
  -Neo noir thrillers
  -Those “society if…” futurism memes
  -Looney Toons
  -Bug’s Life
  -Antz
  -Spy Kids
  -Game of Thrones
  -CATS (recorded Broadway version and 2019 film)
  -A Benadryl nightmare
  -Speech and debate team
  -Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir
  -Osmosis Jones
  -Nat Geo documentaries
  -Hunger Games
  -Jojo Siwa
  -When a third grader tries to explain the…

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  Trap 2024

  ★★½ Watched 05 Aug 2024

  An extra quarter star for how fun it was to roast with friends, and an extra quarter star for shirtless Josh Hartnett 😌

  I will say that the concert scenes were visually very cool! It didn’t feel like a concert doc. But once the concert is done it’s a lot less interesting.

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