Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  To Die For 1995

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  I initially struggled to understand Suzanne. Because, on the one hand, she seems to be savvy and in control of every situation that she’s in, but on the other hand, she’s painfully naïve. By the end of the film, I came to understand that she was someone who believed that her middle class whiteness, entitled her to Everything that she could possibly want. She felt that Italian Americans, and poor Americans, were people whom she could use to get to…

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  The Princess Comes Across 1936

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  I really enjoyed this. Carole Lombard is hilarious in her dumb accent, and they let Fred MacMurray carry over “charming” without laying it on too thick. I like his partner, I like her partner. For most of the runtime, an international committee of detectives are working the crime while the lovebirds have a believable romance. I was impressed by the inclusion of a Russian with sensible anti-royalist views, and a Japanese actor playing a Japanese person occupying a societal role…

Popular reviews

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  Ingrid Goes West 2017

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Sep 2023

  I’ll be thinking about this for a little while. Posting about it on social media seems like a trap I’m falling into. Like, I know that Letterboxd is functionally a journal for me. I don’t think that anyone has ever read or ‘liked’ a review I’ve written on here. But then, why not a more traditional journal? What is it about posting that makes me feel seen, relevant, even, when I know that no one sees what I write? Am…

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  The Misfits 1961

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Aug 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.