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Favorite films

  • You Were Never Really Here
  • Meshes of the Afternoon
  • Perfect Blue
  • Grosse Pointe Blank

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  • Lethal Weapon

    ★★★

  • Alien: Romulus

    ★★★★

  • 12 Angry Men

    ★★★★★

  • We Need to Talk About Kevin

    ★★★★★

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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

2023

★★★½ Watched

Everything is good but the dialogue... oh my god... the dialogue is awful. Lots of scenes where a group of characters take turns giving bits of a monologue like its a school play, and lots of incredibly cliche lines. I know we don't go to these for the writing but god. I'm not sure to what degree this was affected by the strike but it really seems like it was.

The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion

2018

★★½ Watched

gets good when the action starts. unfortunately that takes almost an hour and half.

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The Lobster

2015

This movie is the the most damning evidence that the only difference between a beloved prestige picture and a trashy YA romance is the aesthetics. Its content is literally just a shit tier hunger games rip off:
A dystopian society where everyone has to be in a relationship or the bad authority figures will do bad things to them and its all a metaphor for real life, then they find a rebel faction that is also bad because exaggerated extremes…

The Amazing Spider-Man

2012

★★★★★ Liked Added

*Who am I?*

Literally the only superhero movie to satisfyingly explore the morality of being a superhero, while also creating one of the most real and human emotional arcs, not just in superhero movies, but in movies in general.

At its core this is an exploration of self worth, self identification, and selfishness. It's not a story about Peter becoming Spider-Man so much as it is a story about Peter becoming Peter. Peter is a gifted kid who has built…

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