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  • Malcolm X
  • Heart of a Dog
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  • Malcolm X

    Malcolm X

    ★★★★★

    There might not be another film that's as personally meaningful to me as this one, and revisiting it this weekend has brought so much back, as well as a sense of "home". It's a cliché, but it is absolutely true that this film changed my life. I saw it in the theatre with my dad upon release and walked out a different person. I have always been someone who questions the "norm" and has never just accepted what I've been…

  • Midsommar

    Midsommar

    ★★★★★

    One final viewing of the Director's Cut, and all good things must come to an end. I finally feel satiated and have gleaned almost all that I could from this film. I don't know that I'll be able to watch it on the small screen when it's released on dvd, but nothing else in the past several years has given me as much joy as this has, and I appreciate the accompaniment of this glorious film during one of the most memorable years of my life. I hope to someday meet a person who will make me as happy as this film does. ILU Midsommar <3.

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  • Party Girl

    Party Girl

    This is a mixed bag for me. Overall, I didn't really enjoy it but there are some elements I like...

    The "good":
    -The librarian element (I was a shelver at the local public library for about 4 years in the 90s and good lord do I love the decimal system - I used to disarm people by giving them the correct numbers for whatever section they were looking for off the top of my head)
    -The music (started off with…

  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    I felt a tad less critical during my second viewing of this, although I didn't really enjoy it any more than the first time. I really took note of how much fighting there is and it's less than I'd remembered in actuality but I still do feel that it takes the bulk of the focus of the film. The romantic elements seemed even more awkward and shoehorned in this time, sadly. Also, if I had to give this film a…

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  • The Alpinist

    The Alpinist

    I have no desire to climb mountains (or even be out in nature much, honestly), but I love movies about climbing. This is such a sincere, beautiful profile about a (for now) little-known pioneer in the sport. To call him just a "climber" is misleading, and "alpinist" is a better descriptor, but I really think he's in his own category since he has done so many things that people previously considered impossible.

    I don't want to say too much about…

  • Photograph

    Photograph

    I wasn't going to see this film until a friend assured me it was not the schlocky, predictable romance movie that it could've been based on the trailer. While it didn't do anything earth-shattering, it was definitely worth seeing.

    Photograph is a quietly told and restrained but surprisingly emotional story that features themes about Indian society, gender roles and tradition vs. modernity. It doesn't go where you expect it to, which I appreciated (but several people at my showing found…