Favorite films

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  Rashomon 1950

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 10 Jun 2022

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

  Yesterday I bought lemon-scented wipes because I like them and I thought they would be good to have at home. My roommate didn’t mind paying half of it, but my story is not true. I simply grabbed the first thing I saw after circling the same aisle for the 37th time and not finding what I wanted. I bought it out of embarrassment. But, in my story, I’m innocent. My mom says that “when one tells a story, one tells…

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  Suspiria 1977

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 31 Oct 2021

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

  Suspiria breaks all the rules. Not like Lars von Trier in Breaking the Waves, but it does so in its own way. It’s a movie I should think I should like but ultimately don’t, but I absolutely adore it. Does that make sense? Suspiria has brilliant qualities that would never go unnoticed by me, but it’s a film that "shouldn’t" work because of its tired (perhaps even non-existent) "substance". I’m supposed to be here arguing, like a true movie critic,…

Recent reviews

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  Gertrud 1964

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Sep 2023

  It’s strange how something so deliberate and almost forced, bordering on amateurish, can be so awe-inspiringly magnificent. Great art truly comes from anywhere and everywhere. Dreyer was the weird kind of genius that, to avoid redundancy, we call normal kind of genius.

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Jul 2023

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

  I criticize and reprehend my younger brother so that he learns and becomes a better version of himself. I berate him and judge him, but it's for his own good. The pain I inflict will become flowers, just you see. Oppenheimer tells the story of a man with left-leaning ideals who had the misfortune of being a genius. Christopher Nolan decides to tell his story - and all its facets, from his love life to the making of the bomb…

Popular reviews

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  Fresh 2022

  ★★★½ Rewatched 12 Apr 2022

  Made my mom think it was just a rom-com. She didn’t find it very funny. I think she’ll forgive me around Christmas.

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  Night of the Living Dead 1968

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Jun 2021

  I think I'm going through a horror awakening.

  Night of the Living Dead is fucking amazing. It's a simple (but incredibly effective and influential) horror masterpiece on the surface, but in reality it tackles themes of race (whether Romero wanted to or not) and despair in ways that few movies I've seen have.

  It's easily one of my favorite horror films already.