Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 May 2022

  It’s everything I expected, down to the psychedelic colours. Really lives up to its title. I just didn’t know it would also be legit funny and silly af.

  It’s exactly my kind of movie, embarrassingly so.

  In classic A24 fashion, the main character’s daughter is gay (with a wh*te). The mother is actually my favourite character and I’m so, so, so glad she’s the protagonist and the one who’s set on a conquest to defeat the darkness that’s about to…

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  Carol 2015

  ★★★★ Added

  Christ this is all I’ve ever wanted. An older, sophisticated, rich mommy-type lady who dons red lipstick and expensive fur coats and a younger, innocent gamine set in the 50s. It’s such a slow, yearning, soft movie.

  I do have some thoughts about the costume design and its evolution of Therese from the timid, oversized outfits she wears to a mature, stylish way of dressing at the end of the film, showing how she’s changed by Carol — but you…

Popular reviews

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  Annihilation 2018

  ★★★★ Added

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  The Handmaiden 2016

  ★★★★★ Added

  Sure it’s a cute, simple movie about a mistress and her maid/con artist falling in love for the first 1 hour, but oh man it’s so much more than that.

  What is it about sapphic movies and shows having a mindblowing plot twist that completely recontexualises their whole relationship, making it so much more complicated and deeper? I’ve never felt more spoken to as someone who loves Japanese, Victorian and Korean fashion and the unarguable superior aesthetic of a mistress…