rileymcbride

rileymcbride

Favorite films

  • Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
  • Good Will Hunting
  • Lost in Translation
  • Little Women

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  • The Shawshank Redemption

    ★★★★½

  • On the Rocks

    ★★★½

  • Somewhere

    ★★★½

  • Frances Ha

    ★★★★

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  • On the Rocks

    On the Rocks

    ★★★½

    Overall I enjoyed. Bill Murray did a great job of enacting the playboy character. It was funny and lighthearted. There were some times when the jokes were slightly misogynistic which was addressed in the end when Laura calls her dad out and has the conversation with her husband. It was a part of Felix’s character but I think it could’ve been better addressed. It almost just seemed a little too accepted.
    I liked the take on the struggle that many…

  • Somewhere

    Somewhere

    ★★★½

    I love Coppola’s style of the long disparate scenes full of silence or ordinary moments. It makes the scene sink in, whether it’s awkwardness or tenderness, I find myself feeling it more.

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  • Frances Ha

    Frances Ha

    ★★★★

    The stagnation of this film is perfect. There is no huge climax but it isn’t boring. Its how life is and feels... like your just slowly going up and sometimes going backwards. There is comfort in watching that happen to someone else on a screen and knowing that most people don’t have their life mapped out even if they say they do. That you can still be happy without steadily progressing, that where you struggle in some aspects in your life you can find purpose in other places. The character development of Frances was great and the overall aesthetic of the film was very nice.

  • Call Me by Your Name

    Call Me by Your Name

    ★★★★½

    The way Luca Guadagnino directs makes you feel like you are living through this movie. The single lens used to shoot every scene invokes the perspective that you are there personally witnessing the story. The things unsaid, the silences, the drawn out and little dialogue, the uncomfortable interactions, and unconventional love story all make this movie authentic and appealing to me. It invokes emotions and an effect that classic boy-meets-girl love stories don't have - you truly feel that Elio…

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