Letterboxd 4v3r4n oriking https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/ Letterboxd - oriking Moonstruck 4745g 1987 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/moonstruck/ letterboxd-review-914973775 Fri, 13 Jun 2025 17:44:48 +1200 2025-06-12 No Moonstruck 1987 4.5 2039 <![CDATA[

6u532b

A delight

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28 Days Later 4b464u 2002 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/28-days-later/ letterboxd-review-909475993 Sat, 7 Jun 2025 19:19:47 +1200 2025-06-07 No 28 Days Later 2002 3.0 170 <![CDATA[

Visceral enough but that early digital video quality is uglyyyyyy

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Ballerina 1d3w6f 2025 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/ballerina-2025/ letterboxd-review-909471238 Sat, 7 Jun 2025 19:09:43 +1200 2025-06-07 No Ballerina 2025 3.5 541671 <![CDATA[

Cute!

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No Hard Feelings 33516o 2023 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/no-hard-feelings-2023/ letterboxd-watch-904018060 Sun, 1 Jun 2025 14:33:21 +1200 2025-05-31 Yes No Hard Feelings 2023 3.5 884605 <![CDATA[

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

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The Wild Robot 5z6h 2024 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/the-wild-robot/ letterboxd-review-903857425 Sun, 1 Jun 2025 11:21:37 +1200 2025-05-31 No The Wild Robot 2024 4.5 1184918 <![CDATA[

Cried and cried

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The Gay Deceivers 602l2i 1969 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/the-gay-deceivers/ letterboxd-review-902281133 Fri, 30 May 2025 17:24:06 +1200 2025-05-29 No The Gay Deceivers 1969 3.5 205054 <![CDATA[

I was surprisingly charmed!

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Practical Magic 1a5o1n 1998 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/practical-magic/ letterboxd-review-901137133 Thu, 29 May 2025 10:17:46 +1200 2025-05-28 No Practical Magic 1998 3.0 6435 <![CDATA[

Charming actresses! Awkward plotting!

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American Hustle 2u3j8 2013 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/american-hustle/ letterboxd-review-890141623 Sat, 17 May 2025 14:34:09 +1200 2025-05-11 Yes American Hustle 2013 3.0 168672 <![CDATA[

I had ed it being better than this. Amy’s boobs are lovely tho.

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Friendship 6xc3c 2024 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/friendship-2024/ letterboxd-review-890141014 Sat, 17 May 2025 14:33:23 +1200 2025-05-09 No Friendship 2024 4.5 1239655 <![CDATA[

A chuckle fest

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Final Destination Bloodlines 503o73 2025 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/final-destination-bloodlines/ letterboxd-review-890139982 Sat, 17 May 2025 14:31:59 +1200 2025-05-16 No Final Destination Bloodlines 2025 3.0 574475 <![CDATA[

Goofy. Fun enough.

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Children of Men 6r3c2x 2006 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/children-of-men/ letterboxd-review-874415089 Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:11:53 +1200 2025-04-27 No Children of Men 2006 5.0 9693 <![CDATA[

Just immaculate

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Sinners 585y6o 2025 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/sinners-2025/ letterboxd-review-872317375 Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:37:32 +1200 2025-04-25 No Sinners 2025 4.5 1233413 <![CDATA[

What a rush!

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Death of a Unicorn 3t5p6n 2025 - ★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/death-of-a-unicorn/ letterboxd-review-850069179 Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:32:53 +1300 2025-03-30 No Death of a Unicorn 2025 2.0 1153714 <![CDATA[

Big old shrug

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The Wolf of Wall Street dc6k 2013 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/the-wolf-of-wall-street/1/ letterboxd-watch-844238826 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:28:16 +1300 2025-03-23 Yes The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 5.0 106646 <![CDATA[

Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.

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Mickey 17 2q27c 2025 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/mickey-17/ letterboxd-watch-844237695 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:27:46 +1300 2025-03-21 No Mickey 17 2025 4.0 696506 <![CDATA[

Watched on Friday March 21, 2025.

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Snowpiercer k6j42 2013 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/snowpiercer/ letterboxd-watch-844236924 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:27:24 +1300 2025-03-21 No Snowpiercer 2013 3.5 110415 <![CDATA[

Watched on Friday March 21, 2025.

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Drive 1m3hs Away Dolls, 2024 - ★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/drive-away-dolls/ letterboxd-review-841576023 Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:09:34 +1300 2025-03-20 No Drive-Away Dolls 2024 2.5 957304 <![CDATA[

Something was off for me tonally, but cute enough.

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Michael Clayton 2k5r6g 2007 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/michael-clayton/ letterboxd-review-841513461 Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:28:10 +1300 2025-03-19 Yes Michael Clayton 2007 4.0 4566 <![CDATA[

Such a finely written movie

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Last Summer 6h2h6e 2023 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/last-summer-2023/ letterboxd-review-840274082 Wed, 19 Mar 2025 21:48:27 +1300 2025-03-19 No Last Summer 2023 4.5 812037 <![CDATA[

Provocative!

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Black Bag 4n555y 2025 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/black-bag-2025/ letterboxd-review-836679267 Sun, 16 Mar 2025 05:01:34 +1300 2025-03-15 No Black Bag 2025 4.5 1233575 <![CDATA[

Marvelous. Sexy, slinky, sleek. Gave me less of what I thought I wanted (spycraft) and more of what I apparently needed (powerful simmering sexual tension). Responded so strongly to this.

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September 5 4h556k 2024 - ★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/september-5/ letterboxd-review-834767840 Thu, 13 Mar 2025 18:12:30 +1300 2025-03-12 No September 5 2024 2.0 1211472 <![CDATA[

Kinda tedious tbh

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Querelle 67311m 1982 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/querelle/ letterboxd-watch-834663658 Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:33:39 +1300 2025-03-12 No Querelle 1982 4.0 42135 <![CDATA[

Watched on Wednesday March 12, 2025.

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The Help n1q1o 2011 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/the-help/ letterboxd-watch-834522015 Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:05:52 +1300 2025-03-09 No The Help 2011 3.0 50014 <![CDATA[

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

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Flow 386g1z 2024 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/flow-2024/ letterboxd-review-822423757 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:02:37 +1300 2025-02-27 No Flow 2024 3.5 823219 <![CDATA[

A bit slight but very sweet

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The Monkey 26h44 2025 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/the-monkey-2025/ letterboxd-review-815931854 Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:37:38 +1300 2025-02-21 No The Monkey 2025 3.0 1124620 <![CDATA[

Very silly

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Crossing 39b4z 2024 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/crossing-2024/ letterboxd-review-814148100 Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:09:56 +1300 2025-02-18 No Crossing 2024 4.5 765421 <![CDATA[

Love Miss Lia

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How to Train Your Dragon 2 5g674i 2014 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/how-to-train-your-dragon-2/ letterboxd-watch-812152039 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:18:58 +1300 2025-02-16 No How to Train Your Dragon 2 2014 3.5 82702 <![CDATA[

Watched on Sunday February 16, 2025.

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How to Train Your Dragon 246v34 2010 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/how-to-train-your-dragon/ letterboxd-watch-812151827 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:18:46 +1300 2025-02-15 No How to Train Your Dragon 2010 3.5 10191 <![CDATA[

Watched on Saturday February 15, 2025.

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Anora 5l4431 2024 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/anora/ letterboxd-review-812149939 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:16:47 +1300 2025-02-16 No Anora 2024 4.5 1064213 <![CDATA[

The rhythm gets a bit lost toward the end but I’ll allow it because the first two acts are so electric

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I'm Still Here 3m124a 2024 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/im-still-here-2024/ letterboxd-review-802370127 Fri, 7 Feb 2025 20:18:49 +1300 2025-02-06 No I'm Still Here 2024 3.0 1000837 <![CDATA[

Incredibly moving

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 5z3h5e 1974 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/the-texas-chain-saw-massacre/1/ letterboxd-review-799784870 Tue, 4 Feb 2025 21:14:35 +1300 2025-02-04 Yes The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 4.5 30497 <![CDATA[

So fucking unsettling.

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A Different Man 6b362i 2024 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/a-different-man/ letterboxd-watch-787224436 Fri, 24 Jan 2025 16:15:38 +1300 2025-01-23 No A Different Man 2024 4.5 989662 <![CDATA[

Watched on Thursday January 23, 2025.

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The Incredibles 4q3im 2004 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/the-incredibles/ letterboxd-review-784283159 Tue, 21 Jan 2025 19:02:18 +1300 2025-01-20 No The Incredibles 2004 3.5 9806 <![CDATA[

Perhaps less of an emotional wallop than Pixar’s best but what fun.

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The Brutalist 5413v 2024 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/the-brutalist/ letterboxd-review-781316295 Sun, 19 Jan 2025 12:36:49 +1300 2025-01-18 No The Brutalist 2024 4.0 549509 <![CDATA[

The first half of the movie is flawless and staggering and earns enough goodwill from me to cover for the bumpier second half. I went in so ready to roll my eyes at the self seriousness of it all but I was completely won over by it in the end.

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Wicked 52571s 2024 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/wicked-2024/2/ letterboxd-review-770556899 Sat, 11 Jan 2025 06:09:07 +1300 2025-01-10 Yes Wicked 2024 4.5 402431 <![CDATA[

I come up with all these notes about questionable direction choices and clunky writing and then Cynthia sings loud and Ari tosses her hair and I just lose all objectivity.

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Emilia Pérez 1j2e57 2024 - ★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/emilia-perez/1/ letterboxd-review-750227609 Sat, 28 Dec 2024 05:31:24 +1300 2024-12-27 Yes Emilia Pérez 2024 1.5 974950 <![CDATA[

Did not like it the first time but it’s been rattling around in my head since I saw it a month ago, so I watched again. And you know what? I like it less this time. Once the thrill of “I can’t believe they’re really attempting this” wears off, I’m just left with baffling writing choices, a really reductive understanding of gender, and instantly forgettable melodies, poorly sung. The strong performances are the movie’s only saving grace.

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Nosferatu ox33 2024 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/nosferatu-2024/ letterboxd-review-748582013 Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:24:59 +1300 2024-12-25 No Nosferatu 2024 3.0 426063 <![CDATA[

Finely made and lushly atmospheric but a little bit tedious tbh

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas 732k55 2000 - ★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/how-the-grinch-stole-christmas-2000/ letterboxd-review-748249283 Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:44:15 +1300 2024-12-25 No How the Grinch Stole Christmas 2000 2.5 8871 <![CDATA[

Grotesque

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Babygirl m4c5e 2024 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/babygirl-2024/ letterboxd-review-748033887 Thu, 26 Dec 2024 11:59:22 +1300 2024-12-25 No Babygirl 2024 4.0 1097549 <![CDATA[

Very seductive. Nicole is doing something very exciting. Straight people’s darkest fantasies are fairly tame, tho.

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The Shape of Water 6z5n6s 2017 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/the-shape-of-water/ letterboxd-review-745181670 Mon, 23 Dec 2024 21:28:17 +1300 2024-12-23 No The Shape of Water 2017 3.5 399055 <![CDATA[

Really should not work as well as it does. I should not be swooning like this over the lady fucking the fish

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What's Love Got to Do with It 6d4i6x 1993 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it/ letterboxd-review-745115660 Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:13:10 +1300 2024-12-22 No What's Love Got to Do with It 1993 3.5 15765 <![CDATA[

An incredibly conventionally structured biopic but god damn Angela is just electric.

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Edward Scissorhands 271g4o 1990 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/edward-scissorhands/ letterboxd-review-734049404 Tue, 10 Dec 2024 06:01:25 +1300 2024-12-09 No Edward Scissorhands 1990 4.0 162 <![CDATA[

Just lovely

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The Huntsman 3c3h4t Winter's War, 2016 - ★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/the-huntsman-winters-war/ letterboxd-review-734048795 Tue, 10 Dec 2024 06:00:10 +1300 2024-12-09 No The Huntsman: Winter's War 2016 1.5 290595 <![CDATA[

The reason to watch the first was Charlize and she’s barely in this one. Writing is awful, art direction and costumes are not gaggy and Emily Blunt does not have the juice.

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Tangerine 5h4ok 2015 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/tangerine/ letterboxd-review-728880326 Mon, 2 Dec 2024 20:33:03 +1300 2024-12-01 No Tangerine 2015 4.5 308084 <![CDATA[

Music is bad but otherwise a perfect film. I’m screaming, I’m crying, I live right near that Donut Time!

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Wicked 52571s 2024 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/wicked-2024/1/ letterboxd-review-728345641 Mon, 2 Dec 2024 09:12:57 +1300 2024-11-29 Yes Wicked 2024 4.5 402431 <![CDATA[

Power is undiminished on second viewing. Ari is doing some really layered acting under the operatic high notes in that opening number. Defying Gravity still leaves me shaking and weak in the knees.

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Wicked 52571s 2024 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/wicked-2024/ letterboxd-review-728340118 Mon, 2 Dec 2024 09:06:50 +1300 2024-11-27 No Wicked 2024 4.5 402431 <![CDATA[

CGI kinda ugly. Defying Gravity too chopped up. Michelle Yeoh is regal but miscast. Still completely irresistible. Cynthia! Ariana! Fiyero! All out of this world. Rare instance of live vocals in a movie musical mostly working! The racism/fascism message always felt so broad/clunky, funny how poignant it feels in the CURRENT MOMENT. Not even mad about splitting it up into two movies. They’re right, it SHOULD end on Defying Gravity.

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She Came to Me 52515r 2023 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/she-came-to-me/ letterboxd-review-719049799 Tue, 19 Nov 2024 21:41:20 +1300 2024-11-19 No She Came to Me 2023 3.5 503417 <![CDATA[

Odd

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Erin Brockovich 606z6u 2000 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/erin-brockovich/ letterboxd-review-718334074 Mon, 18 Nov 2024 21:03:08 +1300 2024-11-18 No Erin Brockovich 2000 5.0 462 <![CDATA[

Perhaps the greatest performance ever?

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Challengers 427144 2024 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/challengers/1/ letterboxd-review-713563104 Tue, 12 Nov 2024 11:18:19 +1300 2024-11-11 Yes Challengers 2024 5.0 937287 <![CDATA[

Repeat viewing does not diminish the thrill. I was still jumping off the couch and hollering as the credits rolled.

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Blue Jasmine 6hs4f 2013 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/oriking/film/blue-jasmine/ letterboxd-review-713052791 Mon, 11 Nov 2024 17:57:21 +1300 2024-11-10 No Blue Jasmine 2013 4.5 160588 <![CDATA[

Truly fantastic

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