Zareen

Zareen

Given there's nothing else to do, I've decided to win the Nobel Prize.

Favorite films

  • Alien³
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • House
  • Videodrome

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  • I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★★½

  • Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

    ★★

  • The Men Who Stare at Goats

    ★★★

  • Splice

    ½

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  • I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★★½

    Jesus Egg Christ, this was a punch in the gut. Beautiful. Devastating.

  • Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

    Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

    ★★

    Meh. Sporadically amusing in an elicits-a-soft-snort kind of way, but mostly a pretty dull ride. It felt like Burton tiredly parodying himself. The wedding musical sequence was 100000% just padding the runtime.

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  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★

    Almost as good as David Lynch's 1984 adaptation, but it was probably inevitable that this version would fall short without Sting in bikini bottoms.

  • Carrie

    Carrie

    ★★

    Depicting nude teen girls first thing and then having a lengthy montage of shots lingering on teen girls' legs during their PE/detention was super creepy, and there's frankly no excuse for it.

    Even if I leave that to the side, which I consider pretty generous, it's an incredibly uneven film. The massacre scene is, of course, iconic -- but having much of it in split-screen was a strange choice. Acting ranges from utterly ridiculous to occasionally sympathetic. A small detail,…

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