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  Midsommar 2019

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Jan 2020

  took me a while to get around to seeing it but the set/acting/score/shots were all stunning.

  daylight horror was ambitious and could have gone further.

  liked the flower flay if only because it made me think of annihilation.

  plot was so so but lifted high by the questions about grief and what we need from each other. “i am not a cultural anthropologist and i have no idea what the fuck is going on”

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  Little Women 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Dec 2019

  greta and saorise once again convince me that not only was i a 16 year old girl but it was the happiest i’ve ever been

Popular reviews

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  Manchester by the Sea 2016

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Jul 2018 1

  Peculiarly fascinating because it's such a normal film without flamboyance about a man isolated to the extremities of brokenness. It could have easily exaggerated or grandstanded, but instead it just showed. I appreciate that, and the lack of bows tied on anything. Life is messy, incomplete, and the movie pays great homage to that.

  +acting, lucas and casey have chops
  +cinematography and color
  +score had a fascinating flair to it

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  A Quiet Place 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Apr 2018

  Above all else, I was impressed by the scope of the plot. Very little time actually passes as we watch the Worst Possible Apocalypse Day Ever for our family. We see 3 total days throughout the movie, and with that, comes an impressive amount of world building. Newspapers herald warnings of doom, bonfires signal a community of survivors, and abandoned shopping malls make desolation clear in the rural backdrop of Little Falls. With such a fascinating world and concept, it'd…

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