Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  He's Just Not That Into You 2009

  ★½ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  This movie is so male centered. Regardless of what happens, men keep winning and women are left settling and intentionally pathetic. Not very #MisandristMarch

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  Beauty Shop 2005

  ★★★ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  I forgot about this movie and watching with my mom. It has this “everything will be okay” vibe of some early 2000s movies (I wish there was like a film crit term for it or at least that I knew one) but it feels a lil straightforward in an unchallenging way than being comforting. I say this while also agreeing that this movie did exactly what it’s purpose was meant to be. In short, Queen Latifah you will always be famous! Kevin Bacon’s best roll.

Popular reviews

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  Swarm 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2023

  Why are people so focused about it as a critique of stan culture when the whole Beyhive thing is more of just the backdrop and vehicle the show uses and it’s clearly a representation of an unreliable narrator showing the psyche of coping and isolation vs the idol  

  Like it clearly uses stan culture but is not about “booo celebrity worship and dramatic obsessed fans” it’s a lot more layered and intelligent than that. Use some critical thinking caps…

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  Mulholland Drive 2001

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Feb 2025

  My interpretation: in many different universes these two gay fucking bitches are pantomiming a kind of yearning that transcends even humanity. They see each other through the medium of ACTING not cinema, the incomplete behind-the-scenes of industry. They explore their desire for each other as jealousy, death, decay (I connect the shadowy figure with the decaying body as almost the haunting specter created when not getting enough of what you need), anguish, confusion, vertigo, and a hunger for success. Her…