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World’s dumbest movie watcher

Favorite films

  • Close-Up
  • Aftersun
  • Moonlight
  • I Am Cuba

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  • Thelma & Louise

  • Materialists

  • No Fear, No Die

  • Ballerina

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Thelma & Louise

1991

Liked Watched

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

Materialists

2025

Liked Watched

A bleak film, but it is empathetic. Celine Song weaves these characters (who she clearly loves, superficial as they are) in and out of each other’s lives as she attempts to dissect the rom-com. I’ve never really experienced romantic partnerships with anyone like this, so I guess I can’t say for sure, but it doesn’t seem like something I’d enjoy. What I do enjoy, though, is watching Song work out her ideas about love and modern dating.

There is one…

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The Brutalist

2024

Liked 2

You never really had a chance, did you?

A true blue American epic, with all the complications and contradictions that entails.

This is quite something. It hits you in the face with its grand scale immediately and never lets up. The score is arresting, it’s gorgeous to look at, and every single main performance is phenomenal. (Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones are the highlights for me, but I loved Brody and Alwyn too)

The front half, which is where most…

The Last Showgirl

2024

Watched

Steps up to the plate and just kinda stands there. Pretty score! I like Pamela Anderson! Good costumes! But I just don’t have patience for this kind of film these days. Reminded me very much of The Whale (derogatory) even though it’s a little better/more sensitive than that film. Oh well.