Now why did no one tell me this is Craig Gillespie’s best movie and about the cathartic experience of letting go of your coping mechanisms and how that in itself is a heartbreak but you can do it in your own time and there are people around you who love you and will support you in unexpected ways……….. new comfort movie just dropped, I’m crying, i love you Ryan Gosling, Paul Schneider has never been hotter
Reviews tagged ‘made-me-cry’ by Sydney🚀 Patron
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Shutter Island 2010
“God gave us violence to wage in his honor.”
Always loved this one, best viewed not as a thrill ride but a tragic journey through the mind of a violent man in a violent society. Trauma ricocheting like bullets in the wake of World War II, a new world that those victimized by it can’t recognize or be a part of anymore. In certain ways, one of Scorsese’s bleakest. “Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?”
House of Horrors: Psychological Horror Month - Shutter Island
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Spider-Man 3 2007
Like an entire season of your favorite comic book soap opera scrambled into 2 hours and 19 minutes, forgiveness as a superpower and selflessness as a nonnegotiable lesson when coming of age. Sam Raimi the man who can animate drying paint, that there isn’t a drop of irony in the whole thing is both a comforting escape and sad reminder that these just don’t look like they used to. Mary Jane Watson you are literally stronger than the marines.
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Problemista 2023
Problemista! A movie that delivered on all the chaotic whimsy I fell in love with from the trailer, but surprised me in so many ways. A hilarious and necessarily honest depiction of the US immigrant experience as death by a thousand needless, counterintuitive paper cuts, but Julio Torres threads it into something so insistently optimistic through Alejandro’s relationship with Tilda Swinton’s Elizabeth. Two people who couldn’t be more different, but might only be truly understood by each other. Two little…
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I Saw the TV Glow 2024
Chose to watch this again instead of the Oscars, best decision ever, masterpiece, movie of the life
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Exhibiting Forgiveness 2024
You took the past. And man I forgive you. I understand. Life didn’t give you a lot of choices. But the future… that’s mine.
As someone who is very familiar with the complexities of forgiving a parent I’ve grown really sick of movies with sugarcoated images of forgiveness, that often treat it as being synonymous with reconciliation. Forgiveness is messy and unsatisfying. There’s often a stubbornness that precedes it, especially with parents, a refusal to acknowledge what they themselves have…
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Dune 2021
They see what they’ve been told to see
I hope Denis Villeneuve cries with joy every night because he made this, as good as a cinematic adaptation could be of every spiritual, cosmic, environmental, political, cultural layer of probably the densest sci fi text ever created. This was my 6th time watching it, fourth time in theaters, and it hasn’t lost an ounce of its impact. They showed Paul’s first sandworm ride at the IMAX exclusive sneak peak and I…
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I Saw the TV Glow 2024
Anyways, this shit is major. Demands to be digested over multiple viewings but you don’t need to dissect everything to conclude I Saw the TV Glow is probably a masterpiece. Look at any frame of this and all you see is Jane Schoenbrun - a surreal expression of being queer in the age of evolving media consumption and how it can both liberate and detrimentally intoxicate. Some moments that are absolutely horrific, some that will break your heart into a million…
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The Apartment 1960
Happy 2024 you beautiful people i watched this on New Year’s Eve AND New Year’s Day because i had to force my family to watch it and see that it’s the best thing ever, movie-wise🤍
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The Color Purple 2023
Best musical of the year I fear! I actually think making a musical version of this worked very well despite it feeling tonally grating a couple times while the film finds its footing, there is so much power in music and it offers new avenues for the cast (especially career musicians like Fantasia who is so good as Celie oh my lord) to bring emotion to the story. The soundtrack might not be groundbreaking but the songs and choreography are…
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The Iron Claw 2023
I saw this how many days ago and still haven’t shaken the feeling of discovering the tragedy of this story, and then discovering there was more, and more. Fuck. An all-American cautionary tale and indictment of shitty parents. The artifice of wrestling makes it one of the coolest sports to explore cinematically, and Sean Durkin fully understands that here. Absolutely electric stuff. Zac Efron it’s only the beginning babe