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Favorite films

  • Past Lives
  • Pink Flamingos
  • La La Land

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  • Born in Flames

    ★★★

  • Terrifier

  • Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar

    ★★★

  • Shrek 2

    ★★★★

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  • Born in Flames

    Born in Flames

    ★★★

    It's ideas are still relevant 40 years later. It's depiction of a dystopian world feels more like a documentary than a fictional realm (both a positive and negative).

    It portrays a fractured state of the oppressed similar to what's happening today.

  • Terrifier

    Terrifier

    almost no artistic merit

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  • Longlegs

    Longlegs

    ★★½

    It's beautifully shot, and some moments do have a punch. But that's about the extent of praise I could give it.

    It felt like things just unfurled, details unfolding by themselves that doesn't really give intrigue, and just moved the plot along.

    And a lot of the "scares" here doesn't work for me.
    One thing that does work is the campiness of Nic Cage. A singing serial killer? Oh if only that was so.

  • La La Land

    La La Land

    ★★★★★

    Rewatching it for the nth time and literally not a minute in I was already crying (in my eyes, the epilogue was flashing).

    Watching it this time, a lot of the magic that initially had me surrender my eyes to the screen just does not hit as strong anymore. Many stills are undeniably beautiful, yet, I find myself just letting it pass by (compared to before where I would gush).

    Viewing it this time, I also saw the weakness in…