My review output has really slowed to a trickle, and I apologize for that. I'm starting grad school, which has cut severely into my time and energy to spend on Letterboxd. But I'm not going on hiatus, I'm not stopping writing reviews, things are just going to be slow coming for a while. I'd like to be able to give an idea of when and how often I'll be posting, but unfortunately, I do not have the ability to see…
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P.S. I Love You 2007
The only thing worse than Gerard Butler's horrible Irish accent in this movie is... Jeffrey Dean Morgan's horrible Irish accent in this movie.
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Ponyo 2008
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Even Hayao Miyazaki's lesser films, like 2008's Ponyo, are still singular and delightful. Ponyo synthesizes The Little Mermaid and The Song of the Nibelungs into a quirky little story about a peculiar little fish girl named Ponyo (a slightly grating Noah Cyrus in the Disney dub) who escapes from her eccentric and ambiguously evil sorcerer father Fujimoto (a somber and perhaps miscast Liam Neeson)…
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Let Me In 2010
Remember back in the 2000s when every other horror movie that came out in the States was some shitty watered-down remake of some other, superior foreign horror film? Like it was just assumed that Americans would never be willing to watch a foreign language film until Bong Joon-ho made subtitles cool in 2019? Matt Reeves' 2010 horror flick Let Me In is one such movie, a very American reiteration on Tomas Alfredson's fantastic 2008 Swedish vampire film Let the Right…
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American Psycho 2000
My first exposure to Christian Bale came in the form of his Batman in the Dark Knight movies, where he plays a fairly vanilla leading man type. I had no idea how insanely talented he really is till I saw Mary Harron's pitch-black horror satire American Psycho for the first time as a teen.
This adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's notorious novel of the same name follows yuppy scum Patrick Bateman (Bale), who, not content to merely be a shallow,…
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Gremlins 1984
Joe Dante's Gremlins remains my absolute favorite holiday film. It is almost difficult to talk objectively about this film and what makes it great, because it is so deeply, nostalgically entwined with my childhood and my identity. This movie is pure comfort cinema for me. Watching it is like curling up under a safety blanket. This is one of those movies that, if I were to watch it for the first time today, I would say feels like it was…
