Emily

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Favorite films

  • Casablanca
  • Inside Man
  • Some Like It Hot
  • Challengers

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  • The Big Heat

    ★★★

  • Gifted

    ★★★½

  • Return of the Jedi

    ★★★½

  • The Empire Strikes Back

    ★★★★½

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  • Return of the Jedi

    Return of the Jedi

    ★★★½

    Just what I always wanted. – Accidentally becoming king of the teddy bears.

  • The Empire Strikes Back

    The Empire Strikes Back

    ★★★★½

    Luminous beings are we. 
    Well, some more than others.

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  • Dreamers

    Dreamers

    ★★★★

    Dreamers is a gorgeously shot love story that happens to take place in a British deportation center. Beyond the love between Isio and Farah, Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor explores the importance of female friendship, compassion toward strangers, and, ultimately, love for oneself.

    Traumatized and frightened, Isio hopes for and trusts in a just system—one that surely wouldn’t send her back to a place she associates only with pain and trauma, not home. The sense of belonging she has long been denied comes…

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    In agreement with director Bong, if you’re making a film about the ethics of human printing, you should cast someone “utterly reprintable” like Robert Pattinson. Luckily, he doesn’t just fit the concept – he elevates it, delivering a performance full of the nuance and charm this kind of story demands.

    A film with this premise and protagonist could have easily tipped into gimmickry, but Mickey 17 walks a perfect tightrope between comedy and sincerity. It finds just the right tone,…