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Favorite films

  • Little Girl
  • The Birdcage
  • Shiva Baby
  • Brokeback Mountain

All
  • Disobedience

    ★★★

  • West Side Story

    ★★★★

  • Ziegfeld Follies

    ★★½

  • The Times of Harvey Milk

    ★★★★½

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Anora

2024

★★★★★ Liked Watched

Ivan, you’re making us skinny white boys look bad.

Little Girl

2020

★★★★★ Liked Watched

I am ashamed and my inner cinephile is kicking me right now for not realizing until the very end that this is a documentary.

I don't think I will ever fully understand the transphobic people. Are you really so hateful and bigoted and internally loathsome that you can't just let someone do whatever makes them happy?? It's all entirely ridiculous and frankly quite pathetic for anyone to act that way. Depriving a child of happiness and love is just plain evil.

All that being said, this doc gives me a glimmer of hope for the future and every parent should strive to be more like Sasha’s.

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West Side Story

2021

★★★★ Liked Watched

Still one of my favorite musicals, taken to a new and unique level under Spielberg’s vision.

Somehow I forgot that Leonard Bernstein is responsible for this amazing musical score!

Ziegfeld Follies

1945

★★½ Watched

Great set pieces and vibrant colors galore!

I just wish it wasn’t two hours of mediocre dance/song numbers and decent comedy bits.

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Oppenheimer

2023

★★★★★ Liked Watched

My ears are bleeding, my eyes have melted, and 10 minutes after leaving the theater my heart rate is still well above 100 bpm.

Masterful. Just absolutely thrilling.

Joker: Folie à Deux

2024

★★★★½ Liked 2

After reading my Letterboxd friends’ reviews and the first dozen or so popular reviews, these are some of the chief complaints I’ve noticed:

- Ending is bad
- A pointless sequel
- Not enough “musical”
- Too much “musical”
- Boring
- Tonal shifts don’t work
- Too much Arthur and not enough Joker
- No real commentary
- Wasted Gaga’s talents
- No Batman

I don’t even know where to begin. Some of these I somewhat agree with, others…