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quietly spectacular

Thinking of that Cinematic Orchestra song, of Here, of building a little life, of letting feelings grow and relationships mature, of understanding when you’re not enough of yourself to be anything for anyone else, of the films that don’t let you jump too soon and make you listen to what’s ticking in your head and rattling in your heart. Forgot that this is the whole point, etc.

I cannot not be supremely charmed by June Squibb being spiky as hell, I am kind of shocked and troubled by how aggressively I started crying in the final stretch of this movie but when it gets you it gets you! Potentially misguided in parts but then I kind of feel like we have bigger fish to fry in that specific conversation. A TIFF movie and I don’t think I mean that as a negative. Erin Kellyman is a star.

More grounded than Ducournau's previous features but also more baffling—this kind of made me feel like The Shrouds did, and even Crimes of the Future in of something much more muted without being simple; less visceral and more confounding. Some striking images and scenes no doubt, but I also struggle with young performer-led sagas where I just do not buy the young performer. Also frustrated when the mysterious/evocative/tasty synopsis is in fact kind of a red herring. I don't have the patience for something that maybe *needs* to be rewatched to work, I wish I did!

Really didn’t vibe with the first hour but when it sings it really works. Not hugely interested in what Spike does with Kurosawa because he’s so good at doing Spike. (Didn’t hugely vibe with a lot of the ensemble tbh, but Denzel and ASAP Rocky electric). There are some scenes in the second half that will truly age very well!

Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 10, 2025.

A HOOT AND A HALF

I don’t mind this but I do hope we don’t forget where we came from!

There is no journey, only circularity, only visceral human impulse and uproar and primal needs. I kinda love how you can frame something so complex as in fact straightforward: let these actors give it all, leave it all on the line. Show don’t tell and play it as loud as you fucking can. Never cuts away or lets you daydream, it’s so alive.

Guy BEHIND the movie camera and you gotta watch!!

Major imo. Harris the filmmaker in full command, Frank Dillane a real real star. Special.

I really do live for movies made entirely by people who have torn their hearts out. You can tell, there’s so much in this (inevitable with such a life). Kept thinking about Jennette McCurdy’s memoir as well tbh. Truly believe every single shot has a hell of a lot to say, there are a lot of them and I could honestly watch them as a photo book with less words, but I was moved quite a few times.

Look, I think this will be interesting for film students in 15 years time or for people like Jared Leto who woke up from some retreat and were like wait what’s happening to the world. I ire in small part the acceptance and commitment to the fact that banal reality is the richest source of unending global misery and incredible horror nowadays, but I also resent just feeling like a mosquito’s buzzing in my ear for two and a half hours without biting and leaving. Just quite lifeless, a bit of a waste of all your star players (but Micheal Ward MVP). Makes me sad and not sure on the Aster arc coming up that Hereditary is looking like the one off as opposed to Beau is Afraid. Idk, not for me!

Watched on Wednesday May 14, 2025.

Found this very handsome and moving, I think it’s more than fine to know the framework and beats if they just land so well. Huge part thanks to Oliver Coates imo, and the way limbs are placed and gazes lost and intimacy just heard, ed long after you’ve lost feeling.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

apologies to the plot but I was incredibly busy naming every actor I have ever seen in my life

So verBOSE but also incredibly dynamic. The tension! The charisma! What a final sequence Jesus Lord.

Also very funny to watch while s2 of The Rehearsal is on, maybe we could have avoided all this with a bit more Evanescence etc, this review may only make sense to three people in the world

Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 7, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 5, 2025.

oh NO

“I also said ‘death cult.’”

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

👁️👈🏻👉🏻👁️

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

Really spectacular. Everything it does feels so immediate, so tangible. The last few eps in particular. We toss the words “so real!” around a bit too much when recognising the broadest shape and theme of something, but so many minuscule conversations, looks, touches and sighs in this kinda feel like they could genuinely retool so many moments of my life. What a gift to be shown so much. Worries or disappointments you shrug off bc surely there can’t be anyone else who knows that, who could fix that. They’re all here. Shows/works like this are part of the reason I worry about streaming and the impermanence of it all. What if I can’t rewatch this when I need it? What if I can’t give it to someone when they need answers? Stuff like this really can’t be taken for granted. Jenny Slate's performance is so rich and complex. Beautiful.

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

My heart! So alive, so wise. Joy in all the heartbreak and indelible images that keep you breathing.

Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.

too desperate for Jeanne Dielman too impatient for Daisies

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 24, 2025.

Pretty effective by my count, didn't much care for the way things kicked off but the places The Void (and so everyone) goes to feel kind of impossible to remain indifferent about. Making massive machine stuff have an individual echo. Forcing you to actually engage if not your brain surely your heart/mind, just for a minute? Lewis Pullman is so good in this, talk about range, and the visual effects and set pieces here (no spoilers!!!!) are pretty poetic. (You want the job done? get the entire team who made Beef, lol) Also Florence has a line that is beyond Little Women-coded I do not care what you say. I don't have a problem recommending this!

Call me when they book the remake starring Adam Scott! I ire much of the weirdness in the edit but Beatty can’t quite sell it imo. Give the man a newsroom for crying out loud. Added a half star and like after reflecting for three seconds on the “test” sequence.

Ice cool. Didn’t understand approx 75% of the actual happenings but did fully rock out with every single framing decision, good god. Love very dense films about the written word that actually trust the power of silence; choose your big score wisely and frugally and you will be rewarded. I know I keep saying “I want 500 of this movie” and guess what this is another one. Write every gd exposé and never cut your hair or wash your shirts, that goes for both of you.

I love films like this more than anything right now. Silly guys getting into japes! You couldn’t and wouldn’t make this today (get an Uber!!!!) and it’s the blueprint for a reason imo. Yet I still want 5000 of these. But there is nobody like Steve Martin. This is great.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Dépressant, feels like this really could have been something but that we just have the skeleton and keep blowing hot air through its ribs, or something. Neither moments of comedy or gore (or love!!) are really earned, fascinated to know how many drafts this went through. Hate to who is this for but I’m really struggling here!

Pretty fun but I knew it wasn’t serious when Meghann Fahy claimed she hadn’t done her makeup yet with a face full of blush, I will NOT be fooled

So good, so funny, thrilled at how big of a crowd there was on a Thursday night in Soho who were all in. The comedy feels so fresh, this could be an all-stars SNL sketch and I’d believe you. Not a weak link in the ensemble. You could maybe skip 10 minutes in the middle but how great to hold the gag for so long. Igor MVP, I miss him already.

It’s breathtaking how much time you can spend with a person without knowing them at all.

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

Telling that the section two-thirds in that’s the most hectic and messy and overwhelming is the one my brain responded to the most. This will not end well for any of us!

• Eleanor the Great
• Urchin
• Alpha
• Sentimental Value
• Pillion
• The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol
• A Private Life
• Eddington
• Nouvelle Vague
• The Secret Agent

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In no particular order

• The Last Waltz
• New York, New York
• Magnolia
• That Thing You Do!
• Possession
• Daisies
• Man on the Moon
• Kramer vs. Kramer
• The Worst Person in the World
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence

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1. Nickel Boys
2. Babygirl
3. A Different Man
4. Challengers
5. Sing Sing
6. Bird
7. Queer
8. Love Lies Bleeding
9. Nosferatu
10. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

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Didn't see but wanted to see:

The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Emilia Perez
The Balconettes
Beating Hearts
Misericordia

1. Bird
2. All We Imagine as Light
3. Kinds of Kindness
4. Flow
5. Anora
6. Julie Keeps Quiet
7. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
8. The Apprentice
9. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
10. Parthenope

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1. The Zone of Interest
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. Bottoms
4. How to Have Sex
5. Past Lives
6. May December
7. Barbie
8. The Iron Claw
9. Priscilla
10. Theater Camp

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1. The Zone of Interest
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. Asteroid City
4. How to Have Sex
5. May December
6. Sleep
7. La Chimera
8. Monster
9. The Sweet East
10. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

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A tight 10 of UK releases

1. The Worst Person in the World
2. Happening
3. Red Rocket
4. Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
5. Licorice Pizza
6. Turning Red
7. Top Gun: Maverick
8. Everything Everywhere All at Once
9. Cha Cha Real Smooth
10. Benediction

1. Aftersun
2. Decision to Leave
3. Broker
4. Moonage Daydream
5. Close
6. Little Nicholas: Happy As Can Be
7. The Eight Mountains
8. Return to Seoul
9. Elvis
10. EO

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All the best movies that deserve a little more love

• Underplayed
• Keep an Eye Out
• The Heartbreak Kid
• Heartburn
• Beats
• Goodbye First Love
• Dead Pigs
• I Wanna Hold Your Hand
• I'm Your Man
• Little Joe

Promising Young Woman and Minari feel like 2020, and The Worst Person in the World is 2022, no further questions

1. C'mon C'mon
2. Licorice Pizza
3. The Power of the Dog
4. Petite Maman
5. Red Rocket
6. Pig
7. The Matrix Resurrections
8. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
9. Shiva Baby
10. The World to Come

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6 months to go!

1. Promising Young Woman
2. Minari
3. The World to Come
4. Sound of Metal
5. Shiva Baby
6. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
7. The Mitchells vs. the Machines
8. CODA
9. Together Together
10. Petite Maman

1. Cinderella
2. Dumbo
3. Mulan
4. The Aristocats
5. One Hundred and One Dalmatians
6. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
7. Hercules
8. Frozen
9. The Lion King
10. Tangled

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In hindsight? Movies are good

1. The World to Come
2. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
3. Judas and the Black Messiah
4. CODA
5. Together Together
6. The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
7. The Pink Cloud
8. Cusp
9. Homeroom
10. On the Count of Three

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That have come out, that I have seen, that the world will see someday, I think, I hope, I have no idea!

(Shiva Baby, Pieces of a Woman and Promising Young Woman are in 2021 for me, Parasite and Portrait in 2019)

1. Babyteeth
2. Kajillionaire
3. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
4. Lovers Rock
5. Matthias & Maxime
6. Nomadland
7. David Byrne's American Utopia
8. Shirley
9. Ema
10. Never Rarely Sometimes Always

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Please don’t fight me I just love them

1. Madeline's Madeline
2. Eighth Grade
3. Wildlife
4. Widows
5. Lady Bird
6. Beautiful Boy
7. If Beale Street Could Talk
8. The Rider
9. The Miseducation of Cameron Post
10. Hereditary

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This isn’t a conversation

1. Marriage Story
2. Parasite
3. The Lighthouse
4. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
5. The Souvenir
6. Little Women
7. Booksmart
8. The Irishman
9. Monos
10. Toy Story 4

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New to me!

• A Woman Is a Woman
• Aquarius
• Clueless
• One More Time with Feeling
• Anna Karenina
• Wendy and Lucy
• Somewhere
• Mustang
• I Am Easy to Find
• My Dinner with Andre

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I’m right

1. Babyteeth
2. Shirley
3. Ema
4. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
5. Saint s
6. Palm Springs
7. Saint Maud
8. The Assistant
9. The King of Staten Island
10. Dating Amber

come, cosy up, settle in to my lovely comfort blanket

• Cinderella
• Paddington
• Paddington 2
• The Aristocats
• Little Women
• The Shop Around the Corner
• Winnie the Pooh
• Moulin Rouge!
• Won't You Be My Neighbor?
• Mary Poppins

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• Memories of Murder
• The Host
• 24 Hour Party People
• Lourdes
• I'm Not There
• Girlhood
• Beasts of No Nation
• No
• Love Is Strange
• Monster

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• Marie Antoinette
• The Iron Giant
• Funny Face
• 10 Things I Hate About You
• Roman Holiday
• Spirited Away
• Vertigo
• The Babadook
• Election
• Eyes Wide Shut

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1. Marriage Story
2. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
3. Bad Education
4. Honey Boy
5. Uncut Gems
6. Jojo Rabbit
7. Waves
8. Hustlers
9. Sound of Metal
10. Ema

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These are movies that I have seen
They will come out one day
This is intended to show thanks for the past and hope for the future

1. The Souvenir
2. The Lighthouse
3. Parasite
4. Matthias & Maxime
5. Booksmart
6. Toy Story 4
7. Minding the Gap
8. Monos
9. And Then We Danced
10. Beats

Nothing is over until I’ve hierarchically decided it is

1. The Lighthouse
2. Parasite
3. Matthias & Maxime
4. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
5. And Then We Danced
6. Rocketman
7. Deerskin
8. Zombi Child
9. Little Joe
10. A Hidden Life

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1. The Souvenir
2. Monos
3. What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
4. A Colony
5. Light of My Life
6. Piranhas
7. We Are Little Zombies
8. Tremors
9. Mr. Jones
10. Synonyms

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Culture is great and I am always late

• There Will Be Blood
• Miss Stevens
• Funny Games
• The Diary of a Teenage Girl
• Synecdoche, New York
• My Own Private Idaho
• A Nos Amours
• Jaws
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
• Heathers

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1. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
2. Ray & Liz
3. The Favourite
4. The Old Man & the Gun
5. Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
6. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
7. Birds of age
8. The Front Runner
9. Sunset

Debate is unnecessary

1. Beautiful Boy
2. mid90s
3. Widows
4. If Beale Street Could Talk
5. The Kindergarten Teacher
6. Angel
7. High Life
8. Vox Lux
9. A Star Is Born
10. First Man

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There is no alternative

1. Wildlife
2. Eighth Grade
3. Hereditary
4. Under the Silver Lake
5. Madeline's Madeline
6. Sauvage
7. Museo
8. Climax
9. Unsane
10. First Reformed

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My opinion is gospel

1. Wildlife
2. Sauvage
3. Climax
4. Under the Silver Lake
5. Shoplifters
6. Girl
7. Burning
8. BlacKkKlansman
9. Capernaum
10. In My Room

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1. Madeline's Madeline
2. Unsane
3. Museo
4. L'Animale
5. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
6. Songwriter
7. Isle of Dogs
8. Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.
9. Damsel
10. Sunday's Illness

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