Sarah Carr

Sarah Carr

Cinephile, amateur at best.

Favorite films

  • Night on Earth
  • Moonrise Kingdom
  • Au Revoir les Enfants
  • Paterson

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  • A Real Pain

    ★★★★

  • Interstellar

    ★★★★

  • Flow

    ★★

  • Hugo

    ★½

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  • Flow

    Flow

    ★★

    They tried to title it “Life, uh, finds a way” but turns out that Jeff Goldblum trademarked that. 
    I enjoyed the soundtrack, especially the wind and water effects, but not much else. 
    My initial impression was that the movie felt like a heartwarming survival story, like a parent telling a bedtime story to their kid who asks to go to the zoo every weekend. Yet because I sat down with my butter popcorn expecting to be wowed into contemplation, I was…

  • Hugo

    Hugo

    ★½

    I would never take a class with Professor Tabard.

    The set design was gorgeous (I mean, who doesn’t get nostalgic adventuring through 1930s Paris?), and Sasha Baron Cohen never disappoints; frankly, his character’s love story was the only reason I finished the movie. Between pacing issues, unimaginative and functional lines used for filling plot holes, lack of follow through in scenes, and Hugo’s contradictory character, I had a hard time keeping disbelief suspended for this one.

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  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★★★½

    Decisions, decisions, decisions. And butt plugs and hotdog hands.

  • Aftersun

    Aftersun

    ★★★★★

    Did you ever stop to wonder what it would be like if your parent had a mental illness? If they weren’t a perfect, invincible human after all?

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