wakenda

wakenda

Favorite films

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Inside Out
  • Fight Club
  • A League of Their Own

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  • A Different Man

    ★★★½

  • The Girl with the Needle

    ★★★½

  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    ★★★★

  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig

    ★★★★

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  • Season's Greetings from Cherry Lane

    Season's Greetings from Cherry Lane

    ★★½

    Please can they just give Zain and Mike a whole movie?

  • That Christmas

    That Christmas

    In the words of my two year old, “it’s so so so funny”

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  • Nightmare Alley

    Nightmare Alley

    ★★★

    This was visually stunning, but emotionally flat. I really liked the characters in the carnival in the first half (especially David Straithairn, who is one of my favorite character actors), but I thought there wasn't the same depth of characterization in the second half (unfortunately including Cate Blanchett who I just didn't buy as a fully realized person with coherent motivations). Bradley Cooper also just isn't quite good enough to pull off the weight of the ending, although he does…

  • The Starling Girl

    The Starling Girl

    ★★★½

    Wow I’m glad I didn’t grow up in a fundamentalist community. Just let the girl dance.