Favorite films

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  2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 25 Feb 2025

  (Re)watched this for one of my seminar courses, 9am in winter + room full of 18-19y/o kids if it wasn’t divisive enough already. After finishing it (on our second day of watching ofc) i had the privilege of witnessing a group of young people —with nothing to lose, nothing on the line— just straight up argue. 12 weeks in and i heard like six new voices that day. Passion, intrigue,  and reverence… clashed with confusion, artsy-fartsy eyerolls, and genuine disgust…

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  Interstellar 2014

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 10 Dec 2024

  tour de force, showcase, masterclass, brilliant. A true 21st century epic

Popular reviews

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  Asteroid City 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Jun 2023 1

  AsteroidCity solidifies Wes Anderson’s perfection in his own style of non-linear, objectively subjective, emotional, visual, and dialogue driven storytelling.

  lotta weird kids are gonna fall in love with this genre of storytelling because of this movie and that makes me HAPPYY

  Hard to really summarize the content yet in my head. legitimately difficult to spoil this kind of movie. but I loved it. Except for the kid behind me excitedly yelling “Jesse! We need to cook” Everytime Bryan Cranston was…

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  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Jun 2023

  opening night imax- I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie executed so perfectly while being so incredibly formative for animation as a medium and comics as a whole in the western/global space. so incredibly beautiful in all aspects. MARCH 2024 BABY

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