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Favorite films

  • Little Girl
  • The Birdcage
  • The Handmaiden
  • Brokeback Mountain

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  • Bottle Rocket

    ★★★★

  • 28 Days Later

    ★★★★½

  • Blue

  • Away We Go

    ★★★★

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Anora

2024

★★★★★ Liked Watched

Ivan, you’re making us skinny white boys look bad.

Little Girl

2020

★★★★★ Liked Watched

I am ashamed and my inner cinephile is kicking me right now for not realizing until the very end that this is a documentary.

I don't think I will ever fully understand the transphobic people. Are you really so hateful and bigoted and internally loathsome that you can't just let someone do whatever makes them happy?? It's all entirely ridiculous and frankly quite pathetic for anyone to act that way. Depriving a child of happiness and love is just plain evil.

All that being said, this doc gives me a glimmer of hope for the future and every parent should strive to be more like Sasha’s.

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Bottle Rocket

1996

★★★★ Liked Watched

Wes Anderson’s first and somehow most grounded film. I know most of his later works seem to get the most praise, but I think there’s really something to be said about his 90s-era filmography. Watching this and comparing it to the likes of Asteroid City really paints an incredible progressional picture of style. Bottle Rocket is very clearly Wes’ first major motion picture, but it’s got the quirky writing and wacky narrative that we’ve all come to know so well. Rushmore has many of…

28 Days Later

2002

★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

Almost 2 Hours Later

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Oppenheimer

2023

★★★★★ Liked Watched

My ears are bleeding, my eyes have melted, and 10 minutes after leaving the theater my heart rate is still well above 100 bpm.

Masterful. Just absolutely thrilling.

Joker: Folie à Deux

2024

★★★★½ Liked 2

After reading my Letterboxd friends’ reviews and the first dozen or so popular reviews, these are some of the chief complaints I’ve noticed:

- Ending is bad
- A pointless sequel
- Not enough “musical”
- Too much “musical”
- Boring
- Tonal shifts don’t work
- Too much Arthur and not enough Joker
- No real commentary
- Wasted Gaga’s talents
- No Batman

I don’t even know where to begin. Some of these I somewhat agree with, others…