This movie was good and cute and touching and a worthy addition to the canon of “secret love letters understanding and forgiving our complicated, repressed immigrant mothers with cultural baggage for unwittingly passing down their generational trauma onto their daughters.” Ming Lee you will always be famous!!!!!
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The Bubble 2022
Great background audiovisual stimulation for your cat to stare at and/or if you enjoy watching rich comedians masturbating onscreen for two hours (but they make it feel like four!)
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Giving this movie 5 stars despite not actually considering it a perfect movie, because it was a movie I needed to see, that needs to exist, and that’s all that matters. So many tears were shed during the final act. I’m not typically someone who says “so and so is an international treasure” but Michelle Yeoh is an international (interdimensional?) treasure!!!! Will probably watch this again at some point, at which point I will write a more thoughtful and thorough review. Hugged my mom as soon as possible after watching this movie, and I recommend that anyone else who can do the same.
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The Batman 2022
This definitely felt like a Batman movie for fans of Batman (by which I mean the comics). But, seeing as this is the first piece of Batman media I have ever engaged with in my life (yes, you read that correctly), I am obviously not that target demo. I think a lot of the fight scenes were shot really well and fun to watch, and I enjoyed the fact that he got to be the world’s silliest-looking detective. Not a…
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Drive My Car 2021
I do think this movie was slightly bloated, but otherwise excellent. Misaki in particular was such a powerful character to me... I think I’m in love with her. Would definitely plan on rewatching this soon (after I reread Uncle Vanya) if not for the fact that it’s a bajillion hours long.
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Hilda and the Mountain King 2021
Hilda is one of my favorite cartoons and I will gladly watch it in any form. This film was primarily about motherhood and indigenous land sovereignty, although I think the former theme was executed slightly better than the latter. I love the trolls, but I do agree with everyone who’s like “needs more Twig” or “needs more Woodsman.” I really loved that little moment that focused on Hilda and Frida holding hands. I think the trolls should be allowed to enter the city whenever the fuck they want. Gorgeous animation as always. I’m excited for season 3!
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Don't Look Up 2021
One of the least memorable movies with such an unnecessarily star studded cast. I like Melanie Lynskey though. Yellowjackets hive make some noise!!!!!!!! 🐝🐝🐝
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Rosemary's Baby 1968
This is a very good movie about how women are gaslit, abused, assaulted, stripped of bodily autonomy, and coerced into submission— directed by a man who is just as evil as its villains if not more so. The hypocrisy is astounding.
Obviously, Polanski isn’t the only person behind this film (it was adapted from a book, after all) and the many others who worked on it deserve their dues, but knowing that he’s still being enabled by the industry to…
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Only Lovers Left Alive 2013
1. I think it’s really funny how Tilda Swinton genuinely looks so otherworldly, like a Faerie Queene, without even trying, meanwhile no matter what he does and how many pairs of leather pants he dons, Tom Hiddleston will always just look like a Guy Who Went To Eton.
2. Cool use of Detroit and Tangier as backdrops for white people shenanigans! We love orientalism!
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