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  Before Sunrise 1995

  ★★ Rewatched 17 Mar 2025

  i don't know why i just could not take it seriously. maybe it is because sincerity is dead.

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  The Substance 2024

  ★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  for something called "the substance," this movie has absolutely no substance. also, watching this on the plane felt so illegal lol

Popular reviews

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  Kinds of Kindness 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 27 Jun 2024

  very very good. plays like a poem (my only metric atp). super fun analyzing this with the random film buff in my theater. this has a lot to say about human connection and if you don't believe me I hate you

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  Dead Poets Society 1989

  ½ Watched 21 Jan 2025

  this movie sits firmly at the origin in pritchard's x-y scale!!

  but actually it's just so oversimplified. like why are you teaching people to question authority but not your own authority. every single line was predictable. also lowk problematic. as a poet i feel like this is just blasphemy to poetry and does not hold up today. like realism is art too ok. and the stupid walking ritual like it's all so contrived and you can't teach people to be…

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