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Favorite films

  • La La Land
  • Aftersun
  • Interstellar
  • Before Sunrise

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  • The Royal Tenenbaums

    ★★★★★

  • The French Connection

    ★★★★½

  • Ballerina

    ★★★★½

  • The Phoenician Scheme

    ★★★★

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La La Land

2016

★★★★★ Liked 9

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

Barbie

2023

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Me crying at the what was I made for? montage:
“I come from a long line of wives and mothers”

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The Royal Tenenbaums

2001

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

“I just want to say the last six days have been the best six days of probably my whole life”. “Immediately after making this statement, Royal realized that it was true.”

Watched on Criterion blu-ray. Every performance in here is pretty much perfect, Hackman being the standout for me. I miss soundtrack Wes, we got a taste of it with Asteroid City and I love his work with Desplat don’t get me wrong but I’d love him to go full soundtrack like this again one day bc this is one of the best ever. One of his very best.

The French Connection

1971

★★★★½ Liked Watched

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

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I'm Still Here

2024

★★★★★ Liked Watched

I haven’t left a theater quite that floored since maybe Oppenheimer (-guy who needs to stop mentioning Oppenheimer)…but really, I still felt this in my bones for the next hour after. 

There were moments I couldn’t stop smiling, others I could hardly breathe, others I felt myself fighting tears, and I was barely aware of any of the physical reactions it was getting out of me because I was that immersed in it. Going in blind on this may not…

Sinners

2025

★★★★★ Liked Watched

Everything you want when you go to the movies and still begs you to ask for more by giving you even more than you could’ve hoped…and that’s magic

Saw an interview where Coogler said he wanted to make something that feels old and new, and that’s something I’ve only felt a few times in a theater (Oppenheimer a big one) but this is one of them. Like something we don’t make anymore but pushes into something we maybe haven’t even…