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Favorite films

  • Carol
  • Certified Copy
  • Orlando
  • Brief Encounter

All
  • Materialists

    ★★★½

  • Friendship

    ★★★★

  • The Row

    ½

  • Easy A

    ★★★★½

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Bodies Bodies Bodies

2022

★★ 21

my review on substack

a movie about being triggered, about having/wanting "receipts," about being fucked up because your mom has bpd (???) or your parents are too rich (???), about nothing except the fact that tiktok rots your brain. an unfortunate addition to the current cinematic inclination toward trite, meandering stories about anodyne adolescent melodrama, the death rattle of a culture obsessed with the aesthetic of "trauma" through the lens of "privilege." bleh

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

1975

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

just when you think it can't get any worse, you overcook the potatoes, your coffee tastes like shit, someone is sitting in your seat, the post office is closed and you don't have any stamps.

as meticulously constructed as the daily life of its subject, akerman's masterpiece is held together by long takes of seyrig's face - telling a thousand stories at once, forcing us to confront the mundanity of our own existences. with austerity and candor, she juxtaposes the…

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The Row

2018

½ Watched

forgot to log this monstrosity. randall emmett needs to be in prison. just wrote about lala/vanderpump rules on on my substack if you are interested in that sort of thing

Easy A

2010

★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

i used the opening monologue as my audition for like five different shows when i was in high school. "a modern Howard Hawks movie," as oomf said

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The Substance

2024

★★★★ Liked 200

mama a girl inside you

Shiva Baby

2020

★★★ Liked 10

YOU LOOK LIKE GWYNETH PALTROW ON FOOD STAMPS