Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Dear Evan Hansen 2021

  ★ Watched 23 Sep 2021

  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…

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  The Tree of Life 2011

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Mar 2020 5

  "'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…

Recent reviews

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  Beetlejuice 1988

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 28 Sep 2023

  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.

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  The Swan 2023

  Watched 28 Sep 2023

  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!

Popular reviews

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  A Quiet Place 2018

  ★★★★ Rewatched 31 May 2018 7

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

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  Unfriended 2014

  ½ Watched 25 May 2018

  laura: "delete it fat"