Favorite films

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  Funny Games 1997

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Mar 2025 2

  i would simply never allow a man in short shorts into my home

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  War Horse 2011

  ★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025 1

  a firehose blast of ultra-concentrated spielberg sentimentalism. no filmmaker has ever worked so hard to make an audience cry. i’m surprised steve didn’t send out instructions to have fresh-cut onions passed out in every movie theater. this is a fairly baffling film to me, particularly because i almost like it despite myself. there are legitimately brilliant sequences here (the “what if indiana jones was a horse?” action scene had my heart in my throat) and also at certain points i would…

Popular reviews

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  Jurassic Park 1993

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 26 Feb 2024 2

  this isn’t a movie, it’s steven spielberg putting on a clinic in how to make a smart, scary special effects blockbuster that’s aimed at the widest possible audience without sacrificing the slightest bit of wit or craft. the dinosaurs are still dizzyingly real after all these years, to the point where they make modern CG beasties look like so many rampaging pixels. the jeep attack and the velociraptors stalking the kids through the kitchen are both automatic classics of masterfully…

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  Jaws 1975

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Feb 2024

  no big deal, just watching steven spielberg casually invent the blockbuster. this is one of those seminal movies i’ve always been embarrassed not to have seen and you know what? i was right to be embarrassed. because this movie is amazing and now i’m the bitch who somehow just figured that out in the year of our lord 2024. the summer movie of all time. jaws is smart and beautiful and a little sad and holy hell is it thrilling. it’s…