Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Last Showgirl 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Mar 2025

  It’s a real good movie. With great performances and just wistful enough cinematography. 
  90minute movies are so good.
  No winners or losers, just life! It’s like an exercise for empathy. They’re not perfect but there is ultimately something connecting that keeps everyone accounted for. Late-stage capitalism humanism?

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  65 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Feb 2025

  It was a fun sci-fi! Feels like it would have a been an awesome short story.
  Idk that the two of them needed to speak different languages. Also it didn’t need to be earth or whatever it was. It isn’t clear and setting it on Earth is not essential whatsoever.

Popular reviews

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  Anatomy of a Fall 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 05 Feb 2024

  This is a study in sexist microaggressions, including the pervasive doubt women face at every moment. It pulls on our trust and deduction skills and I think makes the viewer question their biases. The ignorant eye will assume she is guilty, and the thoughtful eye will be unsure, but want her to be proven innocent regardless.
  The performances were amazing. The use of sound was grating, effective. I loved that the setting was imperfect - the snow surrounding the house,…

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  Before Sunrise 1995

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Feb 2025

  What a film!!! They don’t make movies like this anymore!! 
  The performances are… don’t shoot me… so raw.
  I kind of hate that guy but also understand him. I don’t need to like him.
  The way they disagree or conflict is so true to real interactions.
  Idk, it’s been so long since I’ve seen this and there isn’t an aspect I’d change or expect more of.

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