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Recent reviews

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 07 Jan 2025

  Being raised on telenovelas, I tend to live vicariously through the “wealthy man falls for working class woman” trope.

  So how could I not love Anora? Ani gets everything; money, attention, and a great story to tell the grandkids. Also married rich at 23 with no long term goals or ambition. The sex work thing is fine, but I'm in my philanthropy era, so I'd rather give it up for free.
  I chose to ignore the ending; Ani and I deserve better.

  And yes, I'm the working class woman in the aforementioned trope I'm envisioning.

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Jan 2025

  It's hard to beat the Draculean classic.

  And by that, I mean it's hard to beat the contemporary hit single “Vampire” by worldwide superstar Olivia Rodrigo from her bestselling studio album “Guts”. Streaming on iTunes.

Popular reviews

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  Beau Travail 1999

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Dec 2024

  I liked this movie.
  I love the silence. Storytelling through photography, A gaze and a smirk can articulate a thousand words.
  I love the light and colors. The greens, the browns, the blues, the red. Beautiful camerawork where every frame is like a postcard.
  I love the men, with their big tits and huge dumb butts, performing mundane tasks with dirty eloquence. Simultaneously rugged and homoerotic.
  I love masculinity and camaraderie. Craving of intimacy. Insecurity and jealousy. Feelings so universal…

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  Meet Joe Black 1998

  ★★½ Watched 14 Dec 2024

  A few years ago I was also a stunningly beautiful internal medicine resident who is also a billionaire heiress and has deeply emotional weeklong flings with boyishly handsome himbos who turn out to be Death in disguise.
  So I guess the most unrealistic part is how Claire Forlani's career didn't take off after this.

  Fell asleep after the 2:30 hour mark, hopefully it got better after that.

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