phoebeelai

phoebeelai

usc cinema 🦖🦖🦖

Favorite films

  • There Will Be Blood
  • Hunt for the Wilderpeople
  • C'mon C'mon
  • The Florida Project

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  • The Monkey

    ★★½

  • Flow

    ★★★½

  • Companion

    ★★½

  • One of Them Days

    ★★★½

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  • The Monkey

    The Monkey

    ★★½

    bad wig (you know the one I’m talking about)

    tonally all over the place (horror first half, comedy second half), inconsistent world rules, and super spelled out. Theo James only good part of dis

  • Flow

    Flow

    ★★★½

    animation is film! 

    halfway through this film my friends assigned each of us a character and started commentating the entire non-dialogue film. we were invested

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  • The Sneak Over

    The Sneak Over

    ★★★★½

    didn’t watch this yet, but Stink is giving Ryan Gosling a run for his money for best supporting

  • Sound of Metal

    Sound of Metal

    ★★★★½

    “You don’t need to fix anything here.”

    I wouldn’t be mad if Riz Ahmed took home the Oscar for this one. His performance IS the film. Ahmed metamorphoses the tokenism of Ruben’s impending deafness, embodying a human rather than what is too eagerly and conventionally depicted as a “handicap.” Rather, his newfound impairment only guides him to discover a way of life not reliant on external motivations and happiness. It forces him to be alone, to listen to his own…