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Favorite films

  • Perfect Days
  • My Cousin Vinny
  • The Night of the Hunter
  • Sherlock Jr.

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  • The Major and the Minor

    ★★★½

  • Beau Is Afraid

    ★★★

  • A Scanner Darkly

    ★★★

  • A Face in the Crowd

    ★★★★½

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  • The Major and the Minor

    The Major and the Minor

    ★★★½

    i wish this wasn't so weird (seriously, what?) because it's truly delightful! Also, i thought it was going to be way weirder/creepy but it really is cute and charming and somehow works even though it... shouldn't.

  • A Face in the Crowd

    A Face in the Crowd

    ★★★★½

    Instantly a new fav and one of the best movies i've seen this year. Will probably end up rewatching this soon, that's how great it is! Teetering between a 4.5 and a 5 but aspects of the ending felt flawed to me (but i'm still thinking on it).

    Marcia is such a tragic character who i love dearly, and Patricia Neal's performance really grounds this film for me

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  • Interstellar

    Interstellar

    ★★★★

    I did not watch this in theaters, let alone IMAX or 70mm. I am also a Chris Nolan hater. His writing, and the “shininess” or big budget polish of his films just irks me. This was, in many ways, no exception - i felt quite irked at times, in very predictable ways.

    But holy fuck i was not expecting this to rip me open in the ways it did. I mean really, i should have known but completely underestimated the…

  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★

    I suppose there isn't any hard and fast rule that says if you name your movie after a character, that character should be explored in depth but... i feel a bit cheated here that we know so little about Anora. The movie relies on Mikey Madison's (great) performance to tie everything together, and it really left me wanting more complexity and an emotional core.