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  • Evil Dead II
  • Twin Peaks
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  • Frankenstein

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  • Beetlejuice

    ★★★★½

  • The Swan

  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

  • No One Will Save You

    ★★★

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  • Dear Evan Hansen

    Dear Evan Hansen

    Look, here's the thing: once you get past the 27-year-old man onscreen and his arrogant defense of why he was the "only choice" for the lead in this adaptation, the film is still just not good. It's going to have its fans and defenders just as its sister film The Greatest Showman did. Platt's obvious age difference works against the central theme of the musical: the misguidance of youth and the impact it has on others. Seeing this 27-year-old man…

  • The Tree of Life

    The Tree of Life

    ★★★★★

    "'Where were you when I laid the foundations of the Earth, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?'"

    The cinematic equivalent of a Requiem Mass, and dare I say, the best film ever made. Every shot, music choice, acting moment, and question it raises is thing of wonder. I doubt we'll ever see anything like this for a long time. If ever.

    Much like the famous Requiems, the film grieves over the…

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  • Beetlejuice

    Beetlejuice

    ★★★★½

    Need Tim Burton to get back to this style of filmmaking ASAP. Has no business being as good as it is - but that's the charm, isn't it? Its wackiness and love for the strange and unusual (something that should not work on paper) invites the audience into its world and holds us captive much like the bioexorcist himself. After having seen the musical earlier this year, it just gets better and better the more I revisit it every Halloween season.

  • The Swan

    The Swan

    Between Rupert Fiend's expert-level narration and the level to which the poor kid was bullied, it had me hanging on until the very last second. Loved this one!

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  • A Quiet Place

    A Quiet Place

    ★★★★

    all those jumpscares and the scariest thing to me is still the nail on the stairs...

  • Unfriended

    Unfriended

    ½

    laura: "delete it fat"