My favorites are four of my favorites, not my four favorites. Cause who makes a top four list?
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972
I started writing this review, but my iPad turned into an Etch-a-Sketch and shook itself to erase everything I’d written.
I started writing this review, but auto correct changed every word to duck, like the only word I’d ever written was fuck.
I started writing this review, but the font changed to Dingbats, and I had no idea what any of it meant.
I started writing this review, but critical comments in red ink from every writing teacher I’ve ever…
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All About My Mother 1999
Parents are parents. We meet them that way, and we say goodbye to them that way. In a sense, they’re 2-dimensional characters in our life’s story. It’s not just difficult to imagine our parents’ lives before we came around-it often doesn’t occur to us to try.
I remember the moment it clicked for me. I was about twenty-two. There was a stray comment alluding to a tough time my step-mother had been through decades ago. All of a sudden, I…
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A Thousand and One 2023
Teyana Taylor is an absolute hurricane. While there are three actors playing her son Terry across the ten year span of A Thousand and One, she carries the film from start to finish. She plays Inez, a young mother that “kidnaps” her son Terry from a foster home. Inez loves as hard as she’s lived, and because Taylor plays Inez for the entire film, her struggle to provide for Terry and give him a better life feels almost epic in scope.…
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My Beautiful Laundrette 1985
You could put a launderette next to Iguazu Falls and put a seventy-inch screensaver of the aurora borealis inside it, and it would still be the most depressing place on earth. I call bullshit on this business plan.
