Elijah Sarkesian Pro

Favorite films

  • Challengers
  • Monster
  • The Batman
  • Titane

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  • Totally F***ed Up

  • Rebecca

    ★★★★½

  • The Piano

    ★★★★

  • Jamaica Inn

    ★★★

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Lilo & Stitch

2025

★★★ Rewatched

Stitch, as a character, is pretty hard to mess up. It helps that his creator is also his voice, and that hasn’t changed in 23 years.

There are other elements that work. Some of the casting is solid (Billy Magnussen, Maia Kealoha and Sydney Elizebeth Agudong), and there are just enough changes to keep things from feeling exactly the same.

But some of these changes? Yikes. Some of the casting and character choices? Not great. (Zach Galifianakis is bad, and…

Friendship

2024

★★★★ Watched

So awkward and cringy. Also ridiculously hilarious. Best seen with a crowd on board with Tim Robinson’s particular brand of humor.

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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

2016

★★★★½ Watched

The Lonely Island hits the big screen with the viciously funny Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.

Read my full review here.

Her

2013

★★★★★ Liked Watched

On the surface, the story of Her sounds a bit silly: a man falls in love with a highly advanced operating system. As it turns out, though, director Spike Jonze has created a love story that’s incredibly relevant for today. The film’s central message: learning to live through heartbreak and coming out better for it. It’s a message that should resonate with anyone who’s ever experienced a bad relationship, romantic or otherwise, and in Her, it’s told with warmth, humor, and not an ounce of cynicism.