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Favorite films

  • La La Land
  • Whiplash
  • Oslo, August 31st
  • Short Term 12

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  • Ballerina

    ★★★½

  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

    ★★★★

  • The Fly

    ★★★★

  • Calm with Horses

    ★★★½

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Oslo, August 31st

2011

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

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

La La Land

2016

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

The second this film starts, opening on that backed up LA freeway, and the moment I hear those first few notes of 'Another day of Sun', I'm always just instantly absorbed into this beautiful piece of film. Whatever is going on in my life just fades away, and I can just enjoy what is, in my eyes, a perfect film.

The relationship between Seb and Mia is my favourite romance in any media. Whenever they're on screen together, whether it's…

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Ballerina

2025

★★★½ Liked Watched

They just can't help making these movies good can they

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

2025

★★★★ Liked Watched

Well there you have it, the last mission impossible film (probably), and of course it sticks the landing, though maybe with a bit of turbulance. Compared to how tight and entirely thrilling McQuarrie's last three MI films were, The Final Reckoning doesn't quite hold up but when it hits, it hits damn good. The underwater sequence was excellent, and the plane chase was utterly jaw-dropping. I was biting my fist at one point because I was just entirely locked in.…

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Blade Runner 2049

2017

★★★★★ Liked 1

Blade Runner 2049 is a genuine masterpiece. This is why film is such an amazing art form. This is art, straight up.

Mainstream Sellout Live From Cleveland: The Pink Era

2023

★★★★½ Liked 2

Fucking unreal

Docking half a star because they cut out Glass House smh