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Mickey 17 2025
this is a movie that was made for me. absurd, bleak, funny, touching, slimy dystopian corporate feudalism, robert patinson channeling chaplin or buster keaton (incredible physical comedy). Ruffalo and collette were a bit on the nose with their vapid trumpian overlord caricatures but then again the irl source materials are physical human cartoons so i forgive.
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The Darjeeling Limited 2007
this really isn't a good film, and while I don’t think the concept is inherently bad, in its execution it doesn’t really manage to say anything very compelling or interesting about brotherhood, or grief, or existential bougie malaise. at least not even remotely on the level his other films have, again and again. add to that the very valid criticism that this film reeks of orientalism. He mines the indian sub continent visual aesthetic like a true colonialist auteur, turns…
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Midnight Diner 2014
the midnight diner is my happy place. a cozy, understated diner, hidden away from the madness of real life, with a chef who is also my coach and psychologist.
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Anne of Green Gables 1979
absolutely stunning 10/10 adaptation of an incredible book. Paku-san knows how to plumb the depths of human emotion for everything possible and convey it so simply and perfectly in a story. just such a cozy, gripping, beautiful, sweet, wonderful story.
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