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Favorite films

  • Sentimental Value
  • Sinners
  • One Battle After Another
  • The Secret Agent

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  • Happy Together

    ★★★★½

  • Margarita with a Straw

    ★★

  • Gender Trouble

    ★★★½

  • Alice Júnior

    ★★★★

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Happy Together
★★★★½ Liked Watched

Sexiest tango ever. The movie kept surprising me in good ways, right to the end. I'm looking forward to seeing this on the big screen someday.

Margarita with a Straw
★★ Watched

This movie had way too much plot to fit in 100 minutes. I appreciate the intent, but adding the thread about mom's cancer overwhelmed the endeavor.

I'm not a huge fan of having non-disabled actors portray people with disabilities, but this movie came out 12 years ago. Let's give it a pass on that front. 

The choice that puzzled me the most was having the main character look very obviously European when her two parents looked very South Asian. There…

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Backrooms
★★★★ Watched

Can't say that I loved this while I was watching it, but I've been thinking of this ever since I left the theater. It's a creepy, twisty, deep dive on human memory and motivations. This would be a great one for a film discussion group.

Sinners
★★★★½ Liked Watched

My new favorite vampire movie. And I think the audience felt the same. It's been a long time since I've been in a movie theater where the audience broke into spontaneous applause at the end of the show. But that happened—on a Monday night, no less.