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  • Wicked

    ★★★

  • The Substance

    ★★★½

  • The Pale Blue Eye

    ★★½

  • Downton Abbey: A New Era

    ★½

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  • Society of the Snow

    Society of the Snow

    ★★★

    This movie was very validating for someone who always packs a bunch of snacks when heading to the airport. It still would have been a rough experience, but I spent most of my time thinking about how the people trapped on the mountain could really have benefited if there had been more granola bars and maybe some bags of trail mix laying around. I’ll never pack a suitcase the same way ever again!

    Overall, I think this film made the…

  • Leave the World Behind

    Leave the World Behind

    ★★★

    This movie had a grip on me until like the final 30 minutes when, in my opinion, it squandered the suspense it had been building up for the first hour and half by taking a sharp turn from realistic to fiction.

    Spoilers ahead but it was specifically the scene with the teeth falling out where I was like… wait… what?

    Up until that point, the doomsday scenario presented felt so plausible and realistic. The horror I felt as events unfolded…

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  • Little Miss Sunshine

    Little Miss Sunshine

    ★★★★★

    One of my all time favorites! LMS gives us family dysfunction, tension, and the kind of deep love that is immediately recognizable, even if it is not our own. 

    Trapped within the confines of a small van, the main characters spend two hours in conflict with themselves and with one another as they encounter obstacles on a road trip across the country. There is a little bit of everything and the journey is truly worth more than the destination although the conclusion of this film is also exceptional in my book. 

    I would watch this 100 times.

  • Barbie

    Barbie

    ★★★½

    Alongside the COVID-19 pandemic, I think the marketing campaign for this movie was one of the most ubiquitous and unavoidable experiences of the last several years. Everything turned pink!

    I’m still not fully sure what this movie tapped into prior to anyone actually seeing it, but it sure was real. On multiple occasions, I witnessed complete strangers greet each other on the street with  “hi, Barbie!”  which was both amazing and terrifying. 

    The hype, of course, set the movie up…

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