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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 04 Apr 2022 99

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

  the day i first saw this movie was what i call one of my "bad luck" days.

  i have a long-held superstition of good and bad luck days that helps me deal with the latter, and the rule is simple: if something bad happens early in the day? gonna be a bad luck day. and that's okay, because a good luck day always follows. problem with a bad luck day is that it still makes me very irritable, as i…

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  Nomadland 2020

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Dec 2020 52

  when they say "money can't buy happiness" it's meant in a very direct and temporary sense, though it's crucially wrong in that money can unlock security and comfort in ways that can make you happy. but it can't buy freedom.

  wealth is nothing more than a mound of dirt. and from atop that mound you can see so much more than you could from the floor. but you can't stand on top of the mound without it slowly eroding below…

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  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 04 Jun 2023 7

  waiting for Sony to announce that Gwen’s world is canonically the Rhapsody in Blue segment of Fantasia 2000

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  Sanctuary 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 03 Jun 2023 3

  whoa

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  Don't Worry Darling 2022

  Watched 25 Sep 2022 35

  standing outside of the theater telling every white woman that leaves “so messed up. i would never do that to you”

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2022 72

  It’s hard to account for recency bias in saying something this definite, and surely someone will want to start a useless argument or hold resentment against the movie because they disagree, but I think this is one of my favorite movies I have ever seen. It’s been a while since I felt that way with something new. But my expectations were high going in and I still thought so 30 minutes in. Then an hour in. Then 2 hours in.…