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Favorite films

  • Aftersun
  • Short Term 12
  • West Side Story
  • A Place in the Sun

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  • Rebel Ridge

    ★★★

  • Speak No Evil

    ★★★★

  • Harvest

    ★★★

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★★

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  • Rebel Ridge

    Rebel Ridge

    ★★★

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

    This movie was entertaining, but it also didn’t make sense. The stakes seemed very high for this very small unincorporated town and, as a former Louisianan, I didn’t quite get what the need for corruption even was. Like was the whole force really in on this scheme that only got them $36,000 divided by however many cups there were? Did they just want a bigger budget that badly? Why were there so many people just carrying around gargantuan sums of…

  • Speak No Evil

    Speak No Evil

    ★★★★

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

    This movie is an anti-politeness PSA.

    And I’m not even joking. To take it one step further, I would almost say that it feels like an allegory about how society tells women it is more important to be polite than to be safe. Feel like a man is following you on a street? Better to be right, polite, and get murdered than it is to be wrong and scream and embarrass him. But I won’t say that because this was…

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★★

    TIFF 2024, Film 15

    Brady Corbet in attendance.

    I was shaking when I spoke to director Brady Corbet after the screening. I’ve met plenty of high-powered people and I don’t get star struck, so I didn’t know why. But then I started crying during our conversation and it struck me why this was happening to me… I was so deeply moved by this film that it was physically manifesting in my body. What a beautiful thing to say a piece…

  • Daddio

    Daddio

    ★★★★

    TIFF 2023, Film 7
    Christy Hall, Sean Penn, and Dakota Johnson in attendance

    This a strong film led by the powerful trio of mesmerizing performances, captivating writing, and bold cinematography. The fact that a cab ride is this compelling is a testament to all involved.

    The “reveals” may not be anything new, but at the heart of this the movie isn’t about these people, it’s about connection.

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