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Favorite films

  • May December
  • The Meetings of Anna
  • Phoenix
  • Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

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  • We All Loved Each Other So Much

    ★★★★

  • Parthenope

  • The Meetings of Anna

  • Nickel Boys

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  • Blink Twice

    Blink Twice

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

    I think I missed an entire wave of filmmaking (I haven't seen Promising Young Woman, Don't Worry Darling, The Menu, or Saltburn) that enabled something like this. Literally a movie about horrific sexual violence with the subtlety and intelligence of a superhero movie.

    Also so fierce that there was an unintelligible indigenous mystical character who was originally supposed to be scary but was actually good all along. That is racist in a way I haven't seen in a while!

  • Kinds of Kindness

    Kinds of Kindness

    An odd movie that alternates between Brechtian exercise and sketch comedy. Each part has a distancing effect, but stops short of polemic to tell a cruel joke.

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  • Showgirls

    Showgirls

    ★★★★

    A lot of the reappraisal of this reads as a backhanded compliment: this is simply a great movie (not "so bad it's good" or even really camp?). The Persona-esque vampiric/sapphic relationship between Nomi and Cristal gives the movie its best scenes.

  • White Material

    White Material

    ★★★★½

    An empowering film about a girlboss hustling to save the business she built from the ground up!