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it’s absolutely impossible for me to be impartial about this movie because tfios pretty much defined the entirety of my adolescence and also made me wanna be a writer so know that i am rating with my heart instead of my head and please respect that ❤️

(boom clap is responsible for at least two and a half of these stars. shailene woodley is the other two)

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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, 2024 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/kingdom-of-the-planet-of-the-apes/ letterboxd-review-590517162 Fri, 10 May 2024 15:17:44 +1200 2024-05-09 No Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 2024 4.0 653346

kingdom of the planet of the ATEEEEEEEEE

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Baby Reindeer, 2024 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/baby-reindeer/ letterboxd-review-588942948 Tue, 7 May 2024 15:13:10 +1200 2024-05-06 No Baby Reindeer 2024 4.5 241259

struggling to find the words to sum up all the thoughts i have right now and all the things this made me feel so i’ll start with just one: human. remarkably honest, imperfect, angry, and ugly in a deeply human way that art is rarely ever allowed to be. both a reflection of What The World Has Become™ - or maybe always was - and also ourselves, accompanied by a sobering reminder that we have far more in common with each other than that which divides us.

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The Fall Guy, 2024 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/the-fall-guy-2024/ letterboxd-review-586716155 Sat, 4 May 2024 14:54:47 +1200 2024-05-03 No The Fall Guy 2024 4.0 746036

ryan gosling’s rizz could power an entire country

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The Idea of You, 2024 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/the-idea-of-you-2024/ letterboxd-review-586097765 Fri, 3 May 2024 14:49:49 +1200 2024-05-02 No The Idea of You 2024 4.0 843527

watched this with my mom and when it was over she said “this is how i felt about austin butler after elvis”

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Challengers, 2024 - ★★★★★ (contains spoilers) https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/challengers/1/ letterboxd-review-581539679 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:30:40 +1200 2024-04-25 No Challengers 2024 5.0 937287

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i think it’s so commendable how luca guadagnino has made a career out of making straight boys kiss in movies and i hope he never stops

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The People's Joker, 2022 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/the-peoples-joker/ letterboxd-review-579369826 Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:26:34 +1200 2024-04-21 No The People's Joker 2022 4.5 808482

knew this was gonna be my shit as soon as it started with a dedication to “mom and joel schumacher.” vera drew is a goddamn legend and this film is gonna save lives. her whole heart and soul was spilled across that screen in every single scene, and it’s such a gift we got to see it.

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Milk, 2008 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/milk-2008/1/ letterboxd-review-578177435 Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:09:20 +1200 2024-04-19 Yes Milk 2008 4.5 10139

movie night w/ mom, her choice #ally 🏳️‍🌈

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I Saw the TV Glow, 2024 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/i-saw-the-tv-glow/ letterboxd-review-577899351 Sat, 20 Apr 2024 07:51:55 +1200 2024-04-19 No I Saw the TV Glow 2024 4.5 858017

“time wasn’t right. it was moving too fast. i was 19, and then i was 20, and then i was 21. like chapters skipped over in a dvd. i told myself ‘this isn’t normal. this isn’t normal. this isn’t how life is supposed to feel.’”

was stunned speechless for a few seconds after finishing this one. don’t know what else to say other than that it got under my skin in a way few films ever have, with its nightmarish sights and sounds already seared into my memory. knew this one would hit hard for Obvious Reasons (🏳️‍⚧️), but even after going in with that awareness, i still wasn’t fully prepared for how hard the hit would be. a devastating depiction of the all-consuming, soul-crushing nature of repression and how nostalgia can be both an escape and a prison.

trans art is so, so essential - especially in times like these - and i can’t emphasize that enough. it feels like i’ve been waiting for a film like this my whole life. but hey, better late than never :’)

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Abigail, 2024 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/abigail-2024/ letterboxd-review-577577967 Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:59:00 +1200 2024-04-18 No Abigail 2024 3.5 1111873

melissa barrera covered in blood is my favorite genre

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STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces, 2024 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/steve-2024/ letterboxd-review-577047723 Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:44:52 +1200 2024-04-17 No STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces 2024 3.5 248287

steve martin was so fucking hot

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Civil War, 2024 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/civil-war-2024/1/ letterboxd-review-575150512 Mon, 15 Apr 2024 05:46:52 +1200 2024-04-14 Yes Civil War 2024 4.0 929590

haven’t actually rewatched this yet, but i slept on it and read a lot of great writing and woke up pretty pro-civil war (the movie not the conflict itself fyi).

struck most by its commentary on the futility of “neutrality” in journalism (what does “we record so other people ask” even mean? do lee and jessie not realize that they too are “staying out of it” in a way just like their parents? at what point do you become a participant in - and endorser of - what you’re photographing?), its portrayal of how little “political ideology” ultimately matters as an event like this escalates, even after hyperpoliticization is what caused it in the first place (the “he’s shooting at us, so we’re shooting at him” scene speaks to this so well), and the way the relationship between kirsten dunst’s lee and cailee spaeny’s jessie evolves, particularly when it comes to that final scene - which i think is the key to understanding the whole movie. “will you shoot it when it happens?” of course, because they’ll do anything for the shot - whether it’s coming from a gun or a camera. shoot first, ask questions later. all action, no emotion.

but what’s the cost of that shot?

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Civil War, 2024 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/civil-war-2024/ letterboxd-review-574792101 Sun, 14 Apr 2024 14:58:29 +1200 2024-04-13 No Civil War 2024 4.0 929590

i can forgive occasionally muddled messaging for kirsten dunst giving a masterclass in mothering and wagner moura wearing a cunty earring

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Luca, 2021 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/luca-2021/4/ letterboxd-review-574008712 Sat, 13 Apr 2024 10:40:29 +1200 2024-04-12 Yes Luca 2021 5.0 508943

this movie makes me so unbelievably happy!!!!!!!!!!!!! was listening to dan romer’s flawless (and unforgivably snubbed) score while writing this afternoon and got so swept up in it that i was like hm lemme actually just go watch this thing and then found myself falling in love with it all over again <3

what i’m writing at the moment has to do queer kids, so even if that wasn’t how i already interpreted luca and alberto’s relationship, i would’ve seen those shades to the story anyway, but i truly love the lack of explicit clarification here so much. it feels so true to life to me; i think it’s hard to explain the exact nature of your feelings for a Close Friend Who’s Maybe More when you don’t even know who or what you are yet, and i love that the movie doesn’t rush either boy - or their relationship - to a finite resolution. i think it fills the film with far more depth (allowing others to come to different conclusions i would’ve never seen myself) and makes it a more enduring work, one that will generate discussion for years to come.

i also just think there’s something so beautiful about letting the love luca and alberto so clearly feel for one another remain in that chaste space where we live most of our childhood. the right is so quick to associate queerness with sex and deviancy - commonly using this as a reason for why we must “protect” children from it - and yet here, in my opinion, you see that the first and purest form of true queer love is anything but grotesque or immoral. it’s rooted in genuine companionship, comfortability, and the discovery of a sanctuary in time spent with another person who sees and walks through the world the way you do, when you previously thought finding such a person was impossible.

hirokazu kore-eda’s monster is another movie that recently explored this uniquely queer experience with the delicacy and sensitivity it deserves (and it affected me quite similarly, if not even moreso), and i hope against hope that art like this continues to be put out into the world (i’m trying!!!), because it so beautifully depicts queerness as i see it, and as i wish the entire world will someday soon once we’ve dispelled the monstrous myths that have stuck to us - an existence characterized by the fullest freedom of both body and soul, and one that brings you into a community created with the warmest care, compassion, and camaraderie i’ve ever known.

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Monkey Man, 2024 - ★★★★ (contains spoilers) https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/monkey-man/ letterboxd-review-571198438 Mon, 8 Apr 2024 10:24:07 +1200 2024-04-07 No Monkey Man 2024 4.0 560016

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i didn’t think it was physically possible for dev patel to be any hotter than he already is until i watched him lead an army of trans women in a fight against a fascist police force

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The First Omen, 2024 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/the-first-omen/ letterboxd-review-570598341 Sun, 7 Apr 2024 15:14:37 +1200 2024-04-06 No The First Omen 2024 3.5 437342

thank god i can’t have kids

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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, 2024 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/ghostbusters-frozen-empire/ letterboxd-review-569863632 Sat, 6 Apr 2024 15:39:07 +1300 2024-04-05 No Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 2024 3.5 967847

unironically a great gay love story

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Brokeback Mountain, 2005 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/brokeback-mountain/2/ letterboxd-review-569277919 Fri, 5 Apr 2024 16:04:48 +1300 2024-04-04 Yes Brokeback Mountain 2005 5.0 142

rewatched for heath’s heavenly birthday <3

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Carnage for Christmas, 2024 https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/carnage-for-christmas/ letterboxd-review-569032023 Fri, 5 Apr 2024 08:21:47 +1300 2024-04-03 No Carnage for Christmas 2024 1198620

i’ve said it once and i’ll say it again: nobody is making movies like alice maio mackay right now, and this might be her best yet.

i’m always looking for more holiday horror, so if you give me that and a trans final girl i’m basically already sold, but when you throw in a suspenseful small town murder mystery, some truly gnarly gore, and sly queer social commentary to top it all off, i couldn’t ask for more.

in a just world, this would be a new christmas horror classic - and as always, i can’t wait to see what alice does next (and how she inexplicably one-ups herself yet again).

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Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire, 2024 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/godzilla-kong-the-new-empire/ letterboxd-review-566364627 Mon, 1 Apr 2024 09:48:05 +1300 2024-03-31 No Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire 2024 3.0 823464

godzilla’s power changing colors from blue to pink… 🏳️‍⚧️?

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Immaculate, 2024 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/immaculate-2024/ letterboxd-review-565758096 Sun, 31 Mar 2024 15:00:12 +1300 2024-03-30 No Immaculate 2024 4.0 1041613

#RestoreRoe ❤️

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Call Me by Your Name, 2017 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/call-me-by-your-name/2/ letterboxd-review-565269486 Sun, 31 Mar 2024 02:41:36 +1300 2024-03-29 Yes Call Me by Your Name 2017 5.0 398818

watched this with my mom for her first time last night and she was accidentally under the assumption that timmy was not only nominated for the oscar but also won so having to break the news to her immediately after she watched That Ending is one of the hardest things i’ve ever done

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Dune: Part Two, 2024 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/dune-part-two/2/ letterboxd-review-561497536 Mon, 25 Mar 2024 11:57:08 +1300 2024-03-24 Yes Dune: Part Two 2024 5.0 693134

the scene where chani is running to paul as the harkonnen ship she just shot down crashes into the sand beside her and the score swells is literally what movies were made for

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Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, 2024 https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/quiet-on-set-the-dark-side-of-kids-tv/ letterboxd-review-560901942 Sun, 24 Mar 2024 18:14:53 +1300 2024-03-23 No Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV 2024 245902

hell is not hot enough for dan schneider and brian peck.

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Snack Shack, 2024 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/snack-shack/ letterboxd-review-557785318 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:59:43 +1300 2024-03-18 No Snack Shack 2024 4.0 1037113

what’s better than this, guys being dudes: the movie

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Mysterious Skin, 2004 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/mysterious-skin/ letterboxd-review-555176649 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 11:49:58 +1300 2024-03-15 No Mysterious Skin 2004 5.0 11171

i didn’t even try to be happy today

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Kung Fu Panda 4, 2024 - ★★★ (contains spoilers) https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/kung-fu-panda-4/ letterboxd-review-554370007 Fri, 15 Mar 2024 05:35:01 +1300 2024-03-13 No Kung Fu Panda 4 2024 3.0 1011985

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dreamworks only bringing the furious five back for silent cameos during the end credits oh they’re just like me (broke as fuck)

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The Greatest Love Story Never Told, 2024 https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/the-greatest-love-story-never-told/ letterboxd-review-553867648 Thu, 14 Mar 2024 09:21:50 +1300 2024-03-11 No The Greatest Love Story Never Told 2024 1246030

an essential watch for women’s history month

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Scream 7 - ½ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/scream-7/1/ letterboxd-review-553253107 Wed, 13 Mar 2024 09:21:09 +1300 2024-03-12 No Scream 7 0.5 1159559

it’s still fuck scream 7 even if sidney’s back btw

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This Is Me…Now, 2024 https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/this-is-menow/ letterboxd-review-552960283 Tue, 12 Mar 2024 19:22:57 +1300 2024-03-11 No This Is Me…Now 2024 1217343

the zodiac council convinced me to look up my crush’s zodiac sign and find out we’re a perfect match which probably wasn’t the message i was supposed to take away from this, but ❤️

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Dune: Part Two, 2024 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/dune-part-two/1/ letterboxd-review-550740016 Sun, 10 Mar 2024 03:29:58 +1300 2024-03-08 Yes Dune: Part Two 2024 5.0 693134

a cautionary tale for mothers who tell their sons they’re special

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Love Lies Bleeding, 2024 - ★★★★½ (contains spoilers) https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/love-lies-bleeding-2024/ letterboxd-review-549934473 Fri, 8 Mar 2024 21:17:11 +1300 2024-03-07 No Love Lies Bleeding 2024 4.5 948549

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a24 she-hulk

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Little Women, 2019 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/little-women-2019/2/ letterboxd-review-549204235 Thu, 7 Mar 2024 15:21:15 +1300 2024-03-06 Yes Little Women 2019 5.0 331482

i can’t wait to watch this with my daughter someday :’)

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Problemista, 2023 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/problemista/ letterboxd-review-548130846 Tue, 5 Mar 2024 20:44:57 +1300 2024-03-04 No Problemista 2023 4.0 852247

tilda swinton as meryl streep in the devil wears prada if she were constantly on cocaine

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Dune: Part Two, 2024 - ★★★★★ (contains spoilers) https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/dune-part-two/ letterboxd-review-545001764 Fri, 1 Mar 2024 20:41:07 +1300 2024-02-29 No Dune: Part Two 2024 5.0 693134

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i would be so easily manipulated by someone claiming to be a messiah because the scene where paul learns how to ride a sandworm made me believe in god again

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Dune, 2021 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/dune-2021/8/ letterboxd-review-544409108 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 21:09:21 +1300 2024-02-28 Yes Dune 2021 5.0 438631

timothée chalamet was born to play paul atreides and i’m so lucky to be alive to witness it

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Plus One, 2019 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/plus-one-2019/ letterboxd-review-543286145 Wed, 28 Feb 2024 01:32:19 +1300 2024-02-26 No Plus One 2019 3.5 508101

i would follow maya erskine into war

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One Day, 2024 - ★★★★½ (contains spoilers) https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/one-day-2024/ letterboxd-review-542671576 Tue, 27 Feb 2024 02:36:25 +1300 2024-02-26 No One Day 2024 4.5 240667

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what if i walked into oncoming traffic

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T Blockers, 2023 https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/t-blockers/ letterboxd-review-542416227 Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:53:38 +1300 2024-02-25 No T Blockers 2023 1034886

i absolutely adoooooore alice maio mackay as both a filmmaker and a friend and i’m so glad she’s making movies right now because nobody - and i mean nobody - has a voice like hers.

i had the pleasure of watching t blockers almost a year ago and was blown away by her beautifully vicious vision and now that the official trailer is out i can’t recommend that you watch it (and the movie as well obviously) enough. trans women are the future of film babyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Angels in America, 2003 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/angels-in-america/ letterboxd-review-541570932 Sun, 25 Feb 2024 15:42:50 +1300 2024-02-23 No Angels in America 2003 5.0 11245

“i try to tighten my heart into a knot, a snarl, i try to learn to live dead, just numb, but then i see someone i want, and it's like a nail, like a hot spike right through my chest, and i know i’m losing.”

i first learned what AIDS was in my eighth grade health class, during a unit on STDs. we learned its history, its symptoms, its causes, its prognosis, and who it affected - “homosexuals and addicts.” the word choice was very purposeful.

it wasn’t the first i’d heard of AIDS whatsoever - as it or “gay cancer” used to be one of the most popular insults on the playground behind “fag” or “fairy” - but it was the first time i truly realized the role it played in my life, and my history. and it scared the fucking shit out of me.

i was only 13 at the time - too young to know what “love” was beyond a word, but old enough to know that the world thought the burgeoning unnamed feelings i felt for boys were “wrong.” back then, i only thought concealing and denying my sexuality was necessary for social survival; but that day, i realized it was a matter of life and death as well.

i was overcome by some sort of supernatural strength in my latest attempt to make myself straight, driven by the deepest desperation i had ever known. accepting and adopting a “gay lifestyle” would now not only lead to my social ostracization, but also my early demise. i couldn’t have that. i wouldn’t have that.

i tried to force myself to have feelings for female classmates. i prayed every single night to a god i didn’t even know if i believed in to rid me of this sickness. and at times, during my strongest struggles, i would resort to self harm, hitting my head with my hands or whacking it against a wall any time i thought about a boy in a sexual sense, or any time i woke up from yet another amorous dream that taunted me with its deviancy.

before long, i learned that AIDS wasn’t near as deadly these days - the early 2010s - as it was in the 80s, during reagan’s reign. it still existed, sure, but it was no longer a “death sentence.” though, that didn’t really change things - its presence alone petrified me and convinced me for years that a queer life was inherently unhappy and unfulfilling, and that sex with another man would be signing a deal with the devil in more ways than one.

as i came of age, i continued research on my own, reading whatever i could on the AIDS epidemic and realizing for the first time how much history of the world had been hidden from me. in a way, i think this was also my first radicalization, as engaging with the enormity of the pains of the queer community’s past brought me closer to it than ever before, and further from the life i’d led up until this point.

said pain had been reduced to a punchline by so many men i’d met over my earliest years on this earth, over and over and over again - uttered either with enmity or casual callousness in everyday conversation - and it was a punchline i had internalized as truth. gay people were sick, literally and figuratively, and there was no way around that - ever.

i’d also grown up regarding ronald reagan as one of the greatest presidents in american history - or so i’d been told by an alarming number of adults over the last decade and a half - and now i’d come to find that he was in fact actually one of my greatest enemies all along, well before i was even born. and an enemy who threatened not just my existence, but everyone like me.

this revelation forced me to question all the other political and religious beliefs that had been pushed upon me over the years - how many of them were lies as well? when the answer turned out to be “almost all,” i threw myself even further into queer history, straining to rebuild my sense of self with a more honest foundation. and this time, the bricks were laid with love, rather than hate.

and yet, continuing my aforementioned engagement with the enormity of the pains of the queer community’s past was just that - fucking painful. seeing how much we suffered (and continued to) and how many lives were lost made me feel like the fight for equal rights was a futile one. we were up against forces that felt no guilt when it came to their unceasing cruelty, and we always would be.

additionally, as i started to give in to my insecurities with my gender identity for the first time as well, i saw how the trans people who took part in this movement - and most specifically, the trans women - were the most mistreated of all, and oftentimes had their contributions to our progress struck from the already near-barren history books. what did that mean for me and my future? would i suffer the same fate if i admitted and accepted this other dark secret to myself too?

at this same time, i - ever the english nerd, even from an embarrassingly young age - started attending a creative writing camp every summer. and, to start our day there, our counselors would teach us a new word every morning, a few of which didn’t have direct english translations (an exercise that forced us to think beyond the limits of the english language). many of these stuck with me, including the korean concept of “han.”

suh nam-dong, one of the founders of korean minjung theology, described han as “a feeling of unresolved resentment against injustices suffered, a sense of helplessness because of the overwhelming odds against one, a feeling of acute pain in one’s guts and bowels, making the whole body writhe and squirm, and an obstinate urge to take revenge and to right the wrong - all these combined.” more simply, the weight of unbearable and unspeakable suffering shared by a specific community - in this case, koreans.

though this word originated to describe koreans’ grief alone, i thought of how many minority communities shared a similar indescribable anguish (the black community, the jewish community, the queer community, and so on and so forth) and han was able to put a word to the feelings i felt acknowledging the atrocities my ancestors endured - and the way their pain was passed down in the blood and bones of the generations that followed - where there was once none, even if it couldn’t apply to me and us completely. still, it spoke volumes.

but once we’ve acknowledged and accepted our shared suffering, where do we go from there? what is the next step? is there one? at first, i wasn’t sure. this shared suffering couldn’t be erased - it was a part of us now, both existentially and physically. but then i thought about that statement again. though we suffered - and would continue to - we didn’t suffer alone, and we never would. half of han is heartbreak, but the other half speaks to the solace that the shared nature of said heartbreak provides. and that’s how we survive.

i think now of the final lines in angels in america: “this disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all. and the dead will be commemorated, and will struggle on with the living and we are not going away. we won't die secret deaths anymore. the world only spins forward, we will be citizens. the time has come. bye now, you are fabulous each and every one and i bless you. more life, the great work begins.”

we hold in our hearts a grief so great that it’s a near-biblical miracle we’re able to get out of bed each morning and deal with the superficial strife of everyday life while trying to simultaneously silence the ever-present suffering inside, but the oddest part of all is that this debilitating distress somehow also doubles as a stimulant - a motivator, if you will. its unavoidable presence urges us, at all times, to honor lives and loves lost by preserving their legacies through our perpetual and annoyingly persistent push for progress. by building a better future in their name. because as long as we fight, they will never be forgotten.

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Drive-Away Dolls, 2024 - ★★½ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/drive-away-dolls/ letterboxd-review-540326821 Fri, 23 Feb 2024 20:34:49 +1300 2024-02-22 No Drive-Away Dolls 2024 2.5 957304

gloriously gay but also a little like a film student’s approximation of a coen brothers movie

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The Taste of Things, 2023 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/the-taste-of-things/ letterboxd-review-539763619 Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:56:30 +1300 2024-02-21 No The Taste of Things 2023 4.0 964960

dazzling images on a huge silver screen (juliette binoche making baked alaska)

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About Time, 2013 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/about-time/1/ letterboxd-review-538510652 Tue, 20 Feb 2024 19:39:56 +1300 2024-02-19 Yes About Time 2013 3.5 122906

this concept is a little creepier than i thought it was when i was a teenager but it still makes me cry so i’ll let it slide for now

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Madame Web, 2024 https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/madame-web/ letterboxd-review-534845906 Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:15:31 +1300 2024-02-14 No Madame Web 2024 634492

the editing in this is enough to kill a small victorian child

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The Vow, 2012 - ★★½ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/the-vow/ letterboxd-review-533609132 Tue, 13 Feb 2024 20:00:19 +1300 2024-02-12 No The Vow 2012 2.5 72570

if i woke up from a coma and channing tatum told me he was my husband i’m not asking any questions

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How to Have Sex, 2023 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/how-to-have-sex/ letterboxd-review-533034671 Tue, 13 Feb 2024 01:13:09 +1300 2024-02-11 No How to Have Sex 2023 4.5 1075175

this was legitimately physically painful to watch, and yet that’s the very reason you should.

really wish i’d seen something like this when i was a teenager, but i’m unspeakably grateful that this generation of girls - and those to come - will.

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NYAD, 2023 - ★★½ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/nyad/ letterboxd-review-531546832 Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:33:21 +1300 2024-02-10 No NYAD 2023 2.5 895549

thank god for jodie foster

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Rustin, 2023 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/rustin-2023/ letterboxd-review-531503742 Sat, 10 Feb 2024 22:06:27 +1300 2024-02-09 No Rustin 2023 3.5 898713

colman domingo can do no wrong

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Lisa Frankenstein, 2024 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/lisa-frankenstein/ letterboxd-review-530993891 Sat, 10 Feb 2024 05:32:09 +1300 2024-02-08 No Lisa Frankenstein 2024 4.0 993784

diablo cody’s pen is the eighth wonder of the world

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The Times of Harvey Milk, 1984 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/film/the-times-of-harvey-milk/ letterboxd-review-530307013 Fri, 9 Feb 2024 00:31:47 +1300 2024-02-07 No The Times of Harvey Milk 1984 5.0 33138

really sad to realize that we’re still fighting a lot of the same fights we were fighting 46 years ago. the more things change, the more they really do stay the same i guess - the work never stops.

anyway i love harvey milk and i love being queer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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planet of the apes: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/planet-of-the-apes-ranked/ letterboxd-list-46482812 Sat, 11 May 2024 22:06:45 +1200
  • Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
  • Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
  • Rise of the Planet of the Apes
  • War for the Planet of the Apes
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    2024: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/2024-ranked/ letterboxd-list-41226296 Thu, 11 Jan 2024 12:05:47 +1300 picture: dune: part two
    director: denis villeneuve - dune: part two
    actress: mia mckenna-bruce - how to have sex
    actor: timothée chalamet - dune: part two
    supporting actress: tilda swinton - problemista
    supporting actor: josh o’connor - challengers
    original screenplay: i saw the tv glow
    adapted screenplay: dune: part two
    cinematography: dune: part two
    costume design: dune: part two
    film editing: challengers
    makeup and hairstyling: dune: part two
    production design: dune: part two
    original score: challengers
    original song: “not my fault” - mean girls
    sound: dune: part two
    visual effects: dune: part two
    animated feature: kung fu panda 4 

    1. Dune: Part Two
    2. Challengers
    3. I Saw the TV Glow
    4. The People's Joker
    5. How to Have Sex
    6. Love Lies Bleeding
    7. Civil War
    8. Problemista
    9. The Idea of You
    10. The Fall Guy

    ...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    zoë’s top 250 (work in progress) https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/zoes-top-250-work-in-progress/ letterboxd-list-2757320 Tue, 15 Jan 2019 17:15:38 +1300 not at all an objective list but merely the movies that make me live laugh and love ❤️

    ...plus 191 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    criterion wishlist https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/criterion-wishlist/ letterboxd-list-37000419 Fri, 27 Oct 2023 08:51:28 +1300
  • The 400 Blows
  • After Hours
  • All That Heaven Allows
  • All That Jazz
  • Amores Perros
  • Badlands
  • A Brighter Summer Day
  • Certain Women
  • Cléo from 5 to 7
  • Cold War
  • ...plus 49 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    luca guadagnino: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/luca-guadagnino-ranked/ letterboxd-list-43804580 Wed, 6 Mar 2024 01:38:14 +1300
  • Call Me by Your Name
  • Bones and All
  • Challengers
  • Suspiria
  • A Bigger Splash
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    oscars 2025 predictions https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/oscars-2025-predictions/ letterboxd-list-43873937 Thu, 7 Mar 2024 14:24:03 +1300 ABSURDLY early predictions that are mostly for fun since i’m over this predictable season and wanna look ahead so don’t hold me to any of this

    best picture
    1. dune: part two
    2. sing sing
    3. blitz
    4. joker: folie à deux
    5. conclave
    6. a real pain
    7. bird
    8. the apprentice
    9. the nickel boys
    10. the piano lesson

    best director 
    1. denis villeneuve - dune: part two
    2. steve mcqueen - blitz
    3. greg kwedar  - sing sing
    4. edward berger - conclave
    5. andrea arnold - bird 

    best actress
    1. lady gaga - joker: folie à deux
    2. angelina jolie - maria
    3. saoirse ronan - blitz
    4. zendaya - challengers
    5. cynthia erivo - wicked

    best actor
    1. colman domingo - sing sing
    2. sebastian stan - the apprentice
    3. barry keoghan - bird
    4. joaquin phoenix - joker: folie à deux
    5. ralph fiennes - conclave

    best supporting actress
    1. aunjanue ellis-taylor - the nickel boys
    2. danielle deadwyler - the piano lesson
    3. maria bakalova - the apprentice
    4. isabella rossellini - conclave
    5. natasha lyonne - his three daughters

    best supporting actor
    1. samuel l. jackson - the piano lesson
    2. kieran culkin - a real pain
    3. clarence maclin - sing sing
    4. jeremy strong - the apprentice
    5. stanley tucci - conclave

    best original screenplay
    1. jesse eisenberg - a real pain
    2. andrea arnold - bird
    3. steve mcqueen - blitz

    4. ali abbasi and gabriel sherman - the apprentice
    5. efthimis filipppu and yorgos lanthimos - kinds of kindness

    best adapted screenplay
    1. greg kwedar and clint bentley - sing sing
    2. denis villeneuve and jon spaihts - dune: part two
    3. peter straughan - conclave
    4. ramell ross and joslyn barnes - the nickel boys
    5. virgil williams and malcolm washington - the piano lesson

    1. Dune: Part Two
    2. Sing Sing
    3. Blitz
    4. Joker: Folie à Deux
    5. Conclave
    6. A Real Pain
    7. Bird
    8. The Apprentice
    9. Nickel Boys
    10. The Piano Lesson
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    alex garland: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/alex-garland-ranked/ letterboxd-list-45516876 Sun, 14 Apr 2024 16:39:49 +1200
  • Ex Machina
  • Annihilation
  • Civil War
  • Men
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    ghostbusters: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/ghostbusters-ranked/ letterboxd-list-10590823 Wed, 8 Jul 2020 15:45:12 +1200
  • Ghostbusters
  • Ghostbusters
  • Ghostbusters: Afterlife
  • Ghostbusters II
  • Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
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    2019: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/2019-ranked/ letterboxd-list-3439917 Wed, 2 Jan 2019 19:35:42 +1300 picture: little women
    director: bong joon-ho - parasite
    actress: saoirse ronan - little women
    actor: antonio banderas  - pain and glory
    supporting actress: jennifer lopez - hustlers
    supporting actor: timothée chalamet - little women
    original screenplay: booksmart
    adapted screenplay: little women
    cinematography: a hidden life
    costume design: rocketman
    film editing: parasite
    makeup and hairstyling: bombshell
    production design: once upon a time in hollywood
    original score: the last black man in san francisco
    original song: “show yourself” - frozen ii
    sound editing: 1917
    sound mixing: ford v. ferrari
    visual effects: the lion king
    animated feature: frozen ii
    documentary feature: one child nation
    international feature: parasite

    1. Little Women

      A+

    2. Booksmart

      A+

    3. Parasite

      A+

    4. Hustlers

      A+

    5. Jojo Rabbit

      A+

    6. The Farewell

      A+

    7. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

      A+

    8. Knives Out

      A+

    9. Portrait of a Lady on Fire

      A+

    10. Honey Boy

      A

    ...plus 182 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    2017: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/2017-ranked/ letterboxd-list-1991847 Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:09:03 +1300 picture: lady bird
    director: luca guadagnino - call me by your name
    actress: margot robbie - i, tonya
    actor: timothée chalamet - call me by your name
    supporting actress: laurie metcalf - lady bird
    supporting actor: willem dafoe - the florida project
    original screenplay: lady bird
    adapted screenplay: call me by your name
    cinematography: blade runner 2049
    costume design: phantom thread
    film editing: baby driver
    makeup and hairstyling: wonder
    production design: blade runner 2049
    original score: phantom thread
    original song: “the greatest show” - the greatest showman
    sound editing: dunkirk
    sound mixing: baby driver
    visual effects: blade runner 2049
    animated feature: coco
    documentary feature: icarus
    international feature: the square

    1. Lady Bird

      A+

    2. Call Me by Your Name

      A+

    3. Get Out

      A+

    4. I, Tonya

      A+

    5. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

      A+

    6. Blade Runner 2049

      A+

    7. Phantom Thread

      A+

    8. The Florida Project

      A

    9. A Ghost Story

      A

    10. Dunkirk

      A+

    ...plus 127 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    2018: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/2018-ranked/ letterboxd-list-2118657 Fri, 5 Jan 2018 19:47:33 +1300 picture: hereditary
    director: ari aster - hereditary
    actress: toni collette - hereditary
    actor: bradley cooper - a star is born
    supporting actress: rachel weisz - the favourite
    supporting actor: timothée chalamet - beautiful boy
    original screenplay: the favourite
    adapted screenplay: can you ever forgive me?
    cinematography: cold war
    costume design: black panther
    film editing: american animals
    makeup and hairstyling: vice
    production design: isle of dogs
    original score: if beale street could talk
    original song: “is that alright?” - a star is born
    sound editing: a quiet place
    sound mixing: a star is born
    visual effects: aquaman
    animated feature: spider-man: into the spider-verse
    documentary feature: three identical strangers
    international feature: cold war

    1. Hereditary

      A+

    2. A Star Is Born

      A+

    3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

      A+

    4. A Quiet Place

      A+

    5. Mission: Impossible – Fallout

      A+

    6. Can You Ever Forgive Me?

      A

    7. mid90s

      A

    8. Blindspotting

      A

    9. Isle of Dogs

      A

    10. Crazy Rich Asians

      A

    ...plus 178 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    monsterverse: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/monsterverse-ranked/ letterboxd-list-4419155 Fri, 31 May 2019 16:33:25 +1200
  • Godzilla vs. Kong
  • Godzilla
  • Kong: Skull Island
  • Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire
  • Godzilla: King of the Monsters
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    the nebraska film canon™ https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/the-nebraska-film-canon/ letterboxd-list-44421988 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 23:03:11 +1300 as a nebraska girl born and raised i simply have to document our depictions in film

    ...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    2005: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/2005-ranked/ letterboxd-list-17624789 Mon, 26 Apr 2021 04:21:32 +1200 picture: mysterious skin
    director: gregg araki - mysterious skin
    actress: keira knightley - pride & prejudice
    actor: joseph gordon-levitt - mysterious skin
    supporting actress: michelle williams - brokeback mountain
    supporting actor: jake gyllenhaal - brokeback mountain
    original screenplay: the 40-year-old virgin
    adapted screenplay: pride & prejudice
    cinematography: brokeback mountain
    costume design: pride & prejudice
    editing: mysterious skin
    makeup & hairstyling: the chronicles of narnia: the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe
    production design: charlie and the chocolate factory
    score: brokeback mountain
    song: “in the deep,” crash
    sound editing: king kong
    sound mixing: king kong
    visual effects: king kong
    animated feature: corpse bride
    documentary feature: march of the penguins
    international feature: TBD

    1. Mysterious Skin

      A+

    2. Brokeback Mountain

      A+

    3. Pride & Prejudice

      A+

    4. Oldboy

      A+

    5. The 40 Year Old Virgin

      A

    6. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

      A-

    7. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

      B+

    8. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

      B+

    9. Sky High

      B+

    10. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

      B+

    ...plus 79 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    best animated feature winners: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/best-animated-feature-winners-ranked/ letterboxd-list-44070748 Mon, 11 Mar 2024 23:31:23 +1300 picture | director | actor | actress | supporting actor | supporting actress | original screenplay | adapted screenplay

    1. The Incredibles
    2. Inside Out
    3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    4. The Boy and the Heron
    5. Finding Nemo
    6. Up
    7. Zootopia
    8. Toy Story 3
    9. WALL·E
    10. Shrek

    ...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    best original screenplay winners: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/best-original-screenplay-winners-ranked/ letterboxd-list-23182024 Sun, 6 Mar 2022 23:26:41 +1300 picture | director | actor | actress | supporting actor | supporting actress | adapted screenplay | animated feature

    1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

      Charlie Kaufman

    2. Network

      Paddy Chayefsky

    3. Parasite

      Bong Joon-ho & Han Jin-won

    4. Her

      Spike Jonze

    5. Annie Hall

      Woody Allen

    6. Good Will Hunting

      Ben Affleck & Matt Damon

    7. Almost Famous

      Cameron Crowe

    8. Pulp Fiction

      Quentin Tarantino

    9. American Beauty

      Alan Ball

    10. Get Out

      Jordan Peele

    ...plus 37 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    best adapted screenplay winners: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/best-adapted-screenplay-winners-ranked/ letterboxd-list-23198986 Mon, 7 Mar 2022 14:37:18 +1300 picture | director | actor | actress | supporting actor | supporting actress | original screenplay 
    animated feature

    1. The Social Network

      Aaron Sorkin

    2. All About Eve

      Joseph L. Mankiewicz

    3. Sideways

      Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor

    4. Call Me by Your Name

      James Ivory

    5. Women Talking

      Sarah Polley

    6. Ordinary People

      Alvin Sargent

    7. Brokeback Mountain

      Laura McMurtry & Diana Ossana

    8. Moonlight

      Barry Jenkins & Tarell Alvin McCraney

    9. The Silence of the Lambs

      Ted Tally

    10. Casablanca

      Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, & Howard Koch

    ...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    best picture winners: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/best-picture-winners-ranked/ letterboxd-list-7802883 Sun, 19 Apr 2020 04:33:16 +1200 DirectorActor | Actress | Supporting Actor | Supporting Actress | Original Screenplay | Adapted Screenplay

    1. Titanic

      Should Have Won: Titanic

    2. The Silence of the Lambs

      Should Have Won: The Silence of the Lambs

    3. Everything Everywhere All at Once

      Should Have Won: Everything Everywhere All at Once

    4. Parasite

      Should Have Won: Parasite

    5. Annie Hall

      Should Have Won: Annie Hall

    6. All About Eve

      Should Have Won: All About Eve

    7. Chicago

      Should Have Won: Chicago

    8. The Godfather: Part II

      Should Have Won: The Godfather: Part II

    9. No Country for Old Men

      Should Have Won: Juno

    10. Ordinary People

      Should Have Won: Ordinary People

    ...plus 56 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    best director winners: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/best-director-winners-ranked/ letterboxd-list-23172132 Sun, 6 Mar 2022 13:54:41 +1300 Picture | Actor | Actress | Supporting Actor | Supporting Actress | Original Screenplay | Adapted Screenplay

    1. Titanic

      James Cameron

    2. La La Land

      Damien Chazelle

    3. Everything Everywhere All at Once

      Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

    4. Gravity

      Alfonso Cuarón

    5. Parasite

      Bong Joon-ho

    6. Lawrence of Arabia

      David Lean

    7. Schindler's List

      Steven Spielberg

    8. The Silence of the Lambs

      Jonathan Demme

    9. Nomadland

      Chloé Zhao

    10. Cabaret

      Bob Fosse

    ...plus 52 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    best actor winners: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/best-actor-winners-ranked/ letterboxd-list-8094632 Sun, 10 May 2020 08:37:20 +1200 Picture | DirectorActress | Supporting Actor | Supporting Actress | Original Screenplay | Adapted Screenplay

    1. Manchester by the Sea

      Casey Affleck

    2. The Father

      Anthony Hopkins

    3. There Will Be Blood

      Daniel Day-Lewis

    4. The Silence of the Lambs

      Anthony Hopkins

    5. Raging Bull

      Robert De Niro

    6. Amadeus

      F. Murray Abraham

    7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

      Jack Nicholson

    8. On the Waterfront

      Marlon Brando

    9. Oppenheimer

      Cillian Murphy

    10. Network

      Peter Finch

    ...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    best actress winners: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/best-actress-winners-ranked/ letterboxd-list-8094439 Sun, 10 May 2020 08:20:45 +1200 picture | directoractor | supporting actor | supporting actress | original screenplay | adapted screenplay

    1. Poor Things

      Emma Stone

    2. Erin Brockovich

      Julia Roberts

    3. Monster

      Charlize Theron

    4. Everything Everywhere All at Once

      Michelle Yeoh

    5. Blue Jasmine

      Cate Blanchett

    6. Boys Don't Cry

      Hilary Swank

    7. Room

      Brie Larson

    8. Misery

      Kathy Bates

    9. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

      Elizabeth Taylor

    10. Black Swan

      Natalie Portman

    ...plus 37 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    best supporting actor winners: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/best-supporting-actor-winners-ranked/ letterboxd-list-8094311 Sun, 10 May 2020 08:10:32 +1200 Picture | DirectorActor | Actress | Supporting Actress | Original Screenplay | Adapted Screenplay

    1. The Dark Knight

      Heath Ledger

    2. Good Will Hunting

      Robin Williams

    3. Whiplash

      J.K. Simmons

    4. No Country for Old Men

      Javier Bardem

    5. Ordinary People

      Timothy Hutton

    6. Everything Everywhere All at Once

      Ke Huy Quan

    7. Judas and the Black Messiah

      Daniel Kaluuya

    8. GoodFellas

      Joe Pesci

    9. Cabaret

      Joel Grey

    10. A Fish Called Wanda

      Kevin Kline

    ...plus 37 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    best supporting actress winners: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/best-supporting-actress-winners-ranked/ letterboxd-list-8094178 Sun, 10 May 2020 07:58:45 +1200 Picture | DirectorActor | Actress | Supporting Actor | Original Screenplay | Adapted Screenplay

    1. My Cousin Vinny

      Marisa Tomei

    2. Ghost

      Whoopi Goldberg

    3. Chicago

      Catherine Zeta-Jones

    4. Precious

      Mo’Nique

    5. 12 Years a Slave

      Lupita Nyong’o

    6. Boyhood

      Patricia Arquette

    7. West Side Story

      Ariana DeBose

    8. Girl, Interrupted

      Angelina Jolie

    9. Les Misérables

      Anne Hathaway

    10. The Help

      Octavia Spencer

    ...plus 36 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    2023: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/2023-ranked/ letterboxd-list-30025422 Sat, 7 Jan 2023 06:07:35 +1300 picture: poor things
    director: jonathan glazer - the zone of interest
    actress: emma stone - poor things
    actor: zac efron - the iron claw
    supporting actress: danielle brooks - the color purple
    supporting actor: charles melton - may december
    original screenplay: past lives
    adapted screenplay: poor things
    cinematography: maestro
    costume design: barbie
    film editing: oppenheimer
    makeup and hairstyling: maestro
    production design: barbie
    original score: poor things
    original song: “can’t catch me now” - the hunger games: the ballad of songbirds and snakes
    sound: the zone of interest
    visual effects: dune: part two
    animated feature: the boy and the heron
    documentary feature: kokomo city
    international feature: monster

    1. Poor Things

      A+

    2. Past Lives

      A+

    3. Monster

      A+

    4. The Holdovers

      A+

    5. Barbie

      A+

    6. The Zone of Interest

      A

    7. The Iron Claw

      A

    8. Maestro

      A

    9. Anatomy of a Fall

      A

    10. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

      A+

    ...plus 120 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    2022: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/2022-ranked/ letterboxd-list-21909848 Fri, 7 Jan 2022 20:55:29 +1300 picture: everything everywhere all at once
    director: daniel kwan and daniel scheinert - everything everywhere all at once
    actress: danielle deadwyler - till
    actor: austin butler - elvis
    supporting actor: ke huy quan - everything everywhere all at once
    supporting actress: dolly de leon - triangle of sadness
    original screenplay: everything everywhere all at once
    adapted screenplay: women talking
    cinematography: avatar: the way of water
    costume design: babylon
    editing: everything everywhere all at once
    makeup and hairstyling: x
    production design: babylon
    original score: babylon
    original song: “(you made it feel like) home” - bones and all
    sound: top gun: maverick
    visual effects: avatar: the way of water
    animated feature: puss in boots: the last wish
    documentary feature: moonage daydream
    international feature: saint omer

    1. Everything Everywhere All at Once

      A+

    2. Avatar: The Way of Water

      A+

    3. Babylon

      A

    4. Bones and All

      A+

    5. Women Talking

      A+

    6. The Fabelmans

      A+

    7. TÁR

      A+

    8. Cha Cha Real Smooth

      A+

    9. Top Gun: Maverick

      A+

    10. She Said

      A

    ...plus 154 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    2021: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/2021-ranked/ letterboxd-list-15392920 Wed, 9 Dec 2020 10:59:34 +1300 picture: licorice pizza
    director: denis villeneuve - dune
    actress: alana haim - licorice pizza
    actor: andrew garfield - tick, tick… BOOM!
    supporting actress: ariana debose - west side story
    supporting actor: mike faist - west side story
    original screenplay: licorice pizza
    adapted screenplay: west side story
    editing: last night in soho
    cinematography: dune
    costume design: cruella
    makeup and hairstyling: the green knight
    production design: dune
    original score: dune
    original song: “be alive” - king richard
    sound: dune
    visual effects: dune
    animated feature: luca
    documentary feature: the rescue
    international feature: the worst person in the world

    1. Licorice Pizza

      A+

    2. Dune

      A+

    3. West Side Story

      A+

    4. C'mon C'mon

      A+

    5. Spencer

      A+

    6. The Worst Person in the World

      A+

    7. Drive My Car

      A

    8. Don't Look Up

      A

    9. King Richard

      A

    10. CODA

      A

    ...plus 203 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    2020: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/2020-ranked/ letterboxd-list-6651118 Fri, 3 Jan 2020 16:24:19 +1300 picture: nomadland
    director: chloé zhao - nomadland
    actress: carey mulligan - promising young woman
    actor: anthony hopkins - the father
    supporting actress: youn yuh-jung - minari
    supporting actor: daniel kaluuya - judas and the black messiah
    original screenplay: promising young woman
    adapted screenplay: nomadland
    cinematography: nomadland
    costume design: promising young woman
    film editing: the father
    makeup and hairstyling: promising young woman
    production design: emma.
    original score: minari
    original song: “speak now” - one night in miami…
    sound: sound of metal
    visual effects: the invisible man
    animated feature: onward
    documentary feature: boys state
    international feature: another round

    1. Nomadland

      A+

    2. Never Rarely Sometimes Always

      A+

    3. Promising Young Woman

      A+

    4. Minari

      A

    5. The Assistant

      A

    6. The Father

      A

    7. The King of Staten Island

      A

    8. The Invisible Man

      A

    9. Shithouse

      A

    10. Boys State

      A

    ...plus 219 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    ‘lil timmy tim ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/lil-timmy-tim-ranked/ letterboxd-list-43778805 Tue, 5 Mar 2024 11:12:39 +1300
  • Call Me by Your Name
  • Beautiful Boy
  • Little Women
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Bones and All
  • Miss Stevens
  • Dune
  • Wonka
  • Lady Bird
  • The King
  • ...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    Zoë Rose Bryant
    emma stone ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/emma-stone-ranked/ letterboxd-list-43893286 Fri, 8 Mar 2024 03:51:15 +1300
  • Poor Things
  • La La Land
  • Easy A
  • The Curse
  • The Favourite
  • Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
  • Cruella
  • The Help
  • Battle of the Sexes
  • Crazy, Stupid, Love.
  • ...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    Zoë Rose Bryant
    margot robbie ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/margot-robbie-ranked/ letterboxd-list-43893023 Fri, 8 Mar 2024 03:41:35 +1300 this gets a lil messy after the top eight but oh well (the first suicide squad sucks but she’s so good in it sorry)

    1. I, Tonya
    2. Babylon
    3. Barbie
    4. The Wolf of Wall Street
    5. Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
    6. Bombshell
    7. The Suicide Squad
    8. Suicide Squad
    9. Asteroid City
    10. Mary Queen of Scots

    ...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    top ten https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/top-ten-1/ letterboxd-list-43805224 Wed, 6 Mar 2024 02:03:17 +1300
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Boyhood
  • Lady Bird
  • When Harry Met Sally...
  • La La Land
  • Titanic
  • Good Will Hunting
  • Little Women
  • The Last Picture Show
  • Before Sunrise
  • ]]>
    Zoë Rose Bryant
    denis villeneuve: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/denis-villeneuve-ranked/ letterboxd-list-2274010 Sun, 11 Feb 2018 11:28:02 +1300
  • Arrival
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Dune
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • Prisoners
  • Incendies
  • Sicario
  • Enemy
  • Polytechnique
  • Maelström
  • ]]>
    Zoë Rose Bryant
    mike nichols: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/mike-nichols-ranked/ letterboxd-list-14958003 Fri, 20 Nov 2020 20:22:14 +1300
  • Angels in America
  • Working Girl
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • The Birdcage
  • Closer
  • The Graduate
  • Charlie Wilson's War
  • ]]>
    Zoë Rose Bryant
    studio ghibli: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/studio-ghibli-ranked/ letterboxd-list-11402853 Tue, 18 Aug 2020 10:17:04 +1200
  • The Boy and the Heron
  • Princess Mononoke
  • Kiki's Delivery Service
  • The Wind Rises
  • Spirited Away
  • My Neighbor Totoro
  • Howl's Moving Castle
  • Earwig and the Witch
  • ]]>
    Zoë Rose Bryant
    illumination: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/illumination-ranked/ letterboxd-list-2310974 Tue, 20 Feb 2018 19:04:54 +1300
  • Sing
  • Sing 2
  • Despicable Me
  • Despicable Me 2
  • The Lorax
  • The Secret Life of Pets
  • Migration
  • The Super Mario Bros. Movie
  • Minions: The Rise of Gru
  • Minions
  • ...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    james wan: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/james-wan-ranked/ letterboxd-list-2728579 Sat, 23 Jun 2018 11:11:24 +1200
  • The Conjuring 2
  • The Conjuring
  • Insidious
  • Furious 7
  • Saw
  • Malignant
  • Aquaman
  • Death Sentence
  • Dead Silence
  • Insidious: Chapter 2
  • ...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    Zoë Rose Bryant
    dc extended universe: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/dc-extended-universe-ranked/ letterboxd-list-2054577 Fri, 22 Dec 2017 16:25:56 +1300
  • Wonder Woman
  • The Suicide Squad
  • Zack Snyder's Justice League
  • Man of Steel
  • Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
  • Aquaman
  • Blue Beetle
  • Wonder Woman 1984
  • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
  • Justice League
  • ...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    Zoë Rose Bryant
    best modern romcoms https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/best-modern-romcoms/ letterboxd-list-39966649 Fri, 22 Dec 2023 22:04:54 +1300
  • The Big Sick
  • Set It Up
  • Crazy Rich Asians
  • Long Shot
  • Plus One
  • Palm Springs
  • Shithouse
  • Cha Cha Real Smooth
  • Rye Lane
  • Anyone But You
  • ]]>
    Zoë Rose Bryant
    yorgos lanthimos: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/yorgos-lanthimos-ranked-1/ letterboxd-list-39531629 Sat, 9 Dec 2023 15:57:36 +1300
  • Poor Things
  • The Favourite
  • The Killing of a Sacred Deer
  • Dogtooth
  • The Lobster
  • ]]>
    Zoë Rose Bryant
    ridley scott: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/ridley-scott-ranked/ letterboxd-list-7907996 Sat, 25 Apr 2020 18:21:40 +1200
  • Alien
  • Thelma & Louise
  • Blade Runner
  • Gladiator
  • The Martian
  • Alien: Covenant
  • Prometheus
  • Black Hawk Down
  • The Last Duel
  • All the Money in the World
  • ...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    Zoë Rose Bryant
    todd haynes: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/todd-haynes-ranked/ letterboxd-list-38954188 Sun, 19 Nov 2023 20:21:46 +1300
  • Carol
  • Far from Heaven
  • May December
  • I'm Not There
  • Dark Waters
  • ]]>
    Zoë Rose Bryant
    the hunger games: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/the-hunger-games-ranked/ letterboxd-list-2054611 Fri, 22 Dec 2017 16:45:53 +1300
  • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
  • The Hunger Games
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
  • ]]>
    Zoë Rose Bryant
    marvel cinematic universe: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/marvel-cinematic-universe-ranked/ letterboxd-list-2053952 Fri, 22 Dec 2017 11:14:49 +1300
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Avengers: Infinity War
  • Captain America: Civil War
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
  • WandaVision
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  • Avengers: Endgame
  • Spider-Man: Homecoming
  • Thor: Ragnarok
  • ...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    david fincher: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/david-fincher-ranked/ letterboxd-list-2054841 Fri, 22 Dec 2017 18:50:28 +1300
  • Gone Girl
  • The Social Network
  • Se7en
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • Zodiac
  • Fight Club
  • Panic Room
  • The Killer
  • The Game
  • Mank
  • ...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    Zoë Rose Bryant
    criterion https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/criterion/ letterboxd-list-38339588 Sat, 28 Oct 2023 10:08:05 +1300
  • 2046
  • As Tears Go By
  • Before Midnight
  • Before Sunrise
  • Before Sunset
  • Boyhood
  • Broadcast News
  • Chungking Express
  • Days of Being Wild
  • Fallen Angels
  • ...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    Zoë Rose Bryant
    sofia coppola: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/sofia-coppola-ranked/ letterboxd-list-11846625 Mon, 24 Aug 2020 09:41:29 +1200
  • The Virgin Suicides
  • Lost in Translation
  • Priscilla
  • The Bling Ring
  • Marie Antoinette
  • The Beguiled
  • On the Rocks
  • Somewhere
  • A Very Murray Christmas
  • ]]>
    Zoë Rose Bryant
    paul thomas anderson: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/paul-thomas-anderson-ranked/ letterboxd-list-2324241 Sat, 24 Feb 2018 11:50:00 +1300
  • Boogie Nights
  • Licorice Pizza
  • Magnolia
  • Phantom Thread
  • There Will Be Blood
  • Punch-Drunk Love
  • Inherent Vice
  • Hard Eight
  • The Master
  • Cigarettes & Coffee
  • ]]>
    Zoë Rose Bryant
    a24: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/a24-ranked/ letterboxd-list-2680886 Thu, 7 Jun 2018 15:50:22 +1200
  • Lady Bird
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Past Lives
  • 20th Century Women
  • Hereditary
  • C'mon C'mon
  • The Farewell
  • Moonlight
  • mid90s
  • The Florida Project
  • ...plus 60 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    Zoë Rose Bryant
    neon: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/neon-ranked/ letterboxd-list-6056562 Mon, 21 Oct 2019 08:20:41 +1300
  • Parasite
  • I, Tonya
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Anatomy of a Fall
  • The Worst Person in the World
  • Moonage Daydream
  • Triangle of Sadness
  • How to Blow Up a Pipeline
  • Quo Vadis, Aida?
  • Three Identical Strangers
  • ...plus 32 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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    Zoë Rose Bryant
    blumhouse: ranked https://letterboxd.com/zoerosebryant/list/blumhouse-ranked/ letterboxd-list-2680833 Thu, 7 Jun 2018 15:27:54 +1200
  • Get Out
  • Whiplash
  • The Purge: Anarchy
  • Insidious
  • The Black Phone
  • Freaky
  • The Invisible Man
  • BlacKkKlansman
  • The Gift
  • The Purge: Election Year
  • ...plus 56 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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