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  • Nightcrawler
  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  • The Pianist
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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  • Insomnia

    ★★★

  • Princess Mononoke

    ★★★★

  • Brigsby Bear

    ★★★★

  • What Happened to Monday

    ★½

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  • Insomnia

    Insomnia

    ★★★

    to think that the entire plot of this movie would have been decimated if al pacino had just gone and bought blackout curtains

  • Princess Mononoke

    Princess Mononoke

    ★★★★

    such highly imaginative character design and whimsy!!!! i’m so stunned and amazed by the art shown in miyazaki’s cinematic worlds.

    the end left me hungry for a more pressing moral conclusion, because the end as it is features no consequence against the deer-god-killing empress. is the takeaway that life is unfair? that humans will be cruel and yet won’t have to atone for their sins? nonetheless i’m so wowed by the impactful visuals and complex inner world of Princess Mononoke

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  • Blades of Glory

    Blades of Glory

    ★★★

    “If we went to a Halloween party dressed as Batman and Robin, I'd go as Robin. That's how much you mean to me.” wholesome bromance

  • Fluke

    Fluke

    ★★★★½

    i just watched this for the first time in years and oh my god, i cried like such a baby all the way through... even parts that may seem inessential, or maybe trivial, like when a boy pet fluke through the school fence as he stared at him fondly, and when rambo rescued fluke and all the other animals from the lab, even those parts stand out so starkly in my mind and move me to tears. the association of…