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  The Green Ray 1986

  ★★★ Watched 01 Feb 2025

  was it the baader-meinhof effect or was it fate?

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  Ordinary People 1980

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Jan 2025

  sooo… i have a lot of feelings about this one (please bear with me). that one scene of timothy hutton sitting at his kitchen table felt like a snap shot—his father asking him if he’s okay and him replying with “yeah” because mundanity is safe even if it’s not sincere. and that other scene of judd hirsch therapizing while smoking a cigarette felt potent in its ordinariness—with timothy hutton not being able to articulate himself because he can’t conjure up…

Popular reviews

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  Anora 2024

  ½ Watched 24 Dec 2024

  i feel like this film presents a shallow narrative of the power dynamics between privilege and marginalization — defining sex work through a reductionist lens that views intimacy as a capitalist endeavour, and class as overtly binary. anora was not a commentary about the ongoing disenfranchisement of sex workers, but rather a hyper-profligate storyline that distorted ani as unidimensional. also, not sure how i feel about the depiction of women through the lens of sean baker. i’m genuinely concerned as…

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  Female Trouble 1974

  ★★★★½ Watched 07 Dec 2024

  if i let my intrusive thoughts win

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