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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★ Watched 18 Jan 2025

  Felt too loud and jump-scary. Liberal use of the laughing-to-crying for multiple characters. Sure they have been possessed, but when someone changed emotion quickly it was never a surprise. The bloodsucking sounds were gross af (bravo). I have no qualms with visual effects or costume, other than the mustache. Why did they give him a mustache?? I was ready for this movie to be over for far too long.

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  Precious 2009

  ★★★ Watched 15 Jan 2025

  Pretty devastating story. The mother was the most interesting character (it would feel inappropriate to say she was “my favorite”). Precious is a badass.

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  Train to Busan 2016

  ★★½ Watched 21 Apr 2024

  I’ll preface this by saying that this is my second ever watch, and I think it’s an enjoyable movie. That said, I may rag on it a little. 
  Train to Busan shares some unavoidable interpersonal themes with other zombie movies — like the necessity of teamwork for humanity’s survival — but chooses to go a step further and provide overt class commentary. For the characters in TtB, empathy and socioeconomic status are often inversely proportional. This is less an interpretation…

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  The Perks of Being a Wallflower 2012

  ★★★½ Watched 30 Jun 2024

  Ladybird meets dazed and confused, and some other elements. Ended up being more intense than I expected. Charlie is painfully awkward, to the point that it’s hard to believe he’d gain the popularity he enjoys. That disbelief gets overshadowed by more believable screw-ups, and the uncovering of severely realistic traumas. In a Forrest Gump sort of way, Charlie represents some of the best and worst parts of the American teenage experience.

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