Favorite films

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  My Old Ass 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Oct 2024

  This was actually very sweet and funny! Lighthearted and thoughtful and may make you teary (but in a good way). I want to live in a cranberry bog now

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  Pather Panchali 1955

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Oct 2024

  Beautiful and as close as you can get to poetry in a film. It started for me as just an authentic and gentle depiction of life in a Bengali village. But the closer Ray zooms into the lives of this family, the more profound and universal the messages within their interactions and challenges become. There are single expressions in this film that will stay with me for a long time. The relationship between Sarbojaya and Durga is so accurate in…

Popular reviews

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  Dracula 1931

  ★★★ Watched 19 Oct 2022

  I know vat you are

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  American Beauty 1999

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Apr 2023 1

  Overt symbolism and soapy tragedies aside, there’s something starkly disturbing and revelatory about the self-incurred suffocation these characters inflict on themselves. It’s sympathetic as much as a personal and societal criticism, capturing the depressive state of detachment either rigor or suburbia has worked into otherwise promising human life. Framing the entire melodrama in the visual atmosphere of a twisted doll house is apt for this wasteful charade of misperception and dishonest living, the painful tremors of the ultimate conclusion bearing an authenticity so scarce it becomes almost satisfying.

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