#How I Letterboxd

[cap10wilson]

sometimes letterboxd reviews are beautiful

[sadvenicebitch]

[absoluteabsolem]

feel free to tell me about your favourites and/or your top 4 letterboxd in the tags;;;;

[bad-kendi]

[madisoncounty]

"This is her curse. In each life she makes the best of a bad situation, finds love where anyone else would settle for icy tolerance, makes everything work for however long she has and every damn time it is taken away and- In the next life, she promises, in the next life she will do better."

from the fatal flaw that makes you long to be magnificently cursed by @electricbluebutterflies

[dolliexii]

[dashiellqvverty]

my thoughts on Conclave are like. I have never been religious and know very little about the catholic church and how it Works, but this movie clearly has Something To Say about women in the church and I thought it was very compelling and effective. like, through framing and dialogue we are told that women are absolutely vital to the workings of the conclave and should have a more central role, and then are further told that most fit man to lead the church, the one who the conclave is moved by their faith to elect, is not only a man who respects and appreciates and embraces women, but a man who essentially physically contains womanhood inside of himself, for lack of better phrasing

[leonardcohenofficial]

required watching and one of the best concert films i've seen in a minute; gil scott-heron's pointed blues poetry remains ever sharp and ever relevant and if you're unfamiliar with his work black wax is a solid introduction to one of the realest to ever do it

[banghwa-moved]

HELTER SKELTER (2012) - dir. Mika Ninagawa SIREN by SUNMI (2018) - dir. Choi Yongseok

[ratpee73]

my peller doodlings

[cowboylikeyouu]

i made the mistake of reading 0.5-1.5 star letterboxd reviews for deadpool & wolverine again and honestly??? at this point i only feel sorry for these people lmao like all of us tumblr fangirls and comic nerds are having the time of our lives with this movie while you guys have to be whiny bitches on letterboxd to somehow feed into your superiority complex😭 we are having fun, you are not, who is superior now?

[lenalenouilleisblogging]

2024 feminist movie retrospective ~ day 9

It's RAPID FIRE REVIEWS TIME !! ROUND 2

I don't have enough to say about these next films to write full reviews, but i still want to mention them, these are some of the ones i watched in theaters in April of 2024. (i wanted to do 1 post per trimester initially, but i saw a LOT of movies last summer and the posts are already long enough lol)

AUTISTIC VAMPIRE FLICK YESSSS!!!!! 🦇 An incredible first feature from Ariane Louis-Seize, I'll definitely keep an eye on her work. Thank glob the movie was shown with subtitles 😵‍💫 I already have comprehension issues when people with the same accent as me are mumbling, I would not have understood the Quebec accent in this film at ALL.

The two main leads give great performances, all the character dynamics are super entertaining and watchable. Great pace, great dialogues. Mostly takes place at night and there's some great photography and lighting. A bit predictable, but also really sweet and funny, will put you in a good mood.

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My favourite thing ever is when I get to see SSA characters outside of "gay cinema". I want to see characters who happen to be gay go on the same adventures as straight characters. I want to see them have fun. But I'm.... Not sure about this one?

It's purposefully vulgar and over the top, it's absurd, it's "unserious" as the kids say. And it works. It's fun and engaging, and the film-making is very good. The editing in particular is really original and fun. But there's just something about this film that reeks of "a straight man directed this". Too phallic centric for my liking for a film that was originally titled Drive-Away Dykes. It tries to be an ironic B-Movie but it has the most celebrity cameos I've seen all year. It tries to be """sex-positive""" but it ends up feeling fetishistic.

While the film is directed by Ethan Cohen, it's a dual effort from him and his wife Tricia Cooke. They both wrote and produced this. Cooke "identifies as queer" and has said their marriage, I quote: "is a very non-traditional marriage. I have a partner, Ethan has another partner." Which is the lamest and most heterosexual thing I have ever heard lmao

Make your own mind up on this one. If you like juvenile comedies and absurdly horny characters you might enjoy it. I would be lying if I said that I didn't. Texan lesbian Margaret Qualley I am free on friday please call me.

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One of my absolute favourites of the year. It's interesting to watch from France, holy shit the USA medical system is truly broken on every level. The film is brutal, shocking, unrelenting, and that's the point. All the technical aspects work in tandem to create a truly harrowing experience. It's well shot, it has great fucking sound, and the performances are stellar all around. Michael Pitt from Hannibal is still fucking crazy lol.

This movie does a better job at putting you in the main character's shoes than anything else I've seen this year. When it finally ends you'll feel like you can breathe again. The director worked as an ambulance driver for 1 year in preparation for this and you can tell he cares. The film feels very raw, a lot of sequences have a documentary feel to it and the acting is so good it looks like an unscripted mess (yes this is a compliment). Very real and flawed characters. Very atmospheric. A bit sloppy in how it handles drama in the second half. But overall I loved it.

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Undoubtedly my biggest ❓❓❓of the year lol. I absolutely loved the two first thirds. The dialogues, the pacing, the movie is absolutely beautiful to look at with some amazing locations that are filmed beautifully. The characters have great dynamics and it's engaging. Then the film COMPLETELY lost me in the last third. I don't even know what to say. I'm often told that I have artsy fartsy intellectual tastes but even I have my limits. What the hell? Don't get me wrong, I love cryptic endings. But it didn't feel earned at all. It felt like 30min of film were missing? I love every part of this film individually. I actually think the last third is great. I just don't understand how it's related to the rest of the film AT ALL. What... What the fuck

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Low-budget documentary about a french nurse. That's it. Very simple, very sweet, loved watching it with my nurse mom. It's sooo french lol. It's about life, it's about healing, it's about incredible women. A fun watch. French hospitals need urgent help that our government isn't providing. But the fucking heroes who work in them are still clocking in and making the world a better place.

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This kind of drama is not what I go for usually, but undoubtedly powerful. A grim look at reality. A film about how little the law cares about victims of rape. The fact that the movie ends up "proving" (not graphically) that the crime did happen feels like a betrayal of its concept. We didn't need to see it, we just believe victims. But i guess it's needed for the general audience... All the performances are terrific. Very female-centric with a hopeful ending. Loved the end credits 🥹 let's go women

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I'm a huge, HUGE fan of Alex Garland's previous film, Men. I was hyped as fuck for this. And, uuuuuuuhhhhhh. It's not that it's badly made. It's great in fact. Amazing camera work, editing, soundtrack. Wonderful acting. But it's all in service of NOTHING... How frustrating... This is a film about war journalism. And journalism in general. And if you wanna see that, then go see it! The problem is that it's not at all what the movie advertises itself as! (watch the trailer below if you doubt my words lol) It establishes this really surprising story of a massive, violent civil war tearing the US apart and then it simply uses it as a background to talk about journalism. Now DON'T TWIST MY WORDS, journalism is important. Some war journalists are fucking heroes. (see : day 5 of my retrospective)

But it all just ends up feeling super phoney. What was the point? What's the message? There is none. Why did this civil war start? Don't know! What does every side want? Don't know!

Civil War is a very good film. As i said before, my philosophy is to judge movies based on what they are trying to achieve. And i think this film meets all its goals. It's a weirdly apolitical movie about the way violent conflicts affect people's personal lives and what role war journalists play in all this. BUT i think the decision to choose the context of a civil war is a bad one. The title is bad, the trailer is bad. It muddles up what the film is trying to achieve. It makes you expect answers the movie will never deliver, and it ends up feeling empty and boring. I recommend that you watch it and make your own opinion on it. I broadly agree with what Adum from YMS said about it.

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I was told this was the Indian John Wick but I liked it a lot more than John Wick! A great, fun watch. It truly is a perfect mix of Hollywood codes and Bollywood codes. The film has a great style complimented by its visuals and music, it's well edited, it has a great use of color. A great directorial debut for Patel! The story will feel very tropey if you don't like bollywood's codes but i thought it was very engaging from beginning to end! It has interesting characters and a very satisfying conclusion. I like that the film takes its time, and the action scenes are great. Sometimes you just wanna see people beat each other to a pulp 🩵 This is a great one if you want that.

An important note : i like that the film includes hijras characters, it's very interesting and it truly links the narrative to specific cultural phenomenons. HOWEVER. At some point there's a journalist on TV who refers to hijras as the "trans community" and at first i thought it was a mistake from the french subtitles but no it's actually in the film. And that sucks. It's already bad enough that this kind of oversimplification/misiformation thrives online, but it's dangerous to put it in mainstream big budget films. Like what the fuck.

I don't know... Maybe i'm too woke but i don't think it's good to refer to a caste of men who were castrated as minors because they were effeminate/SSA, and who are legally considered a third sex that is heavily discriminated against, as "transwomen". Am i the only one who's bothered by that? 💀 I guess i am considering the most popular reviews. (I just looked it up and most big NGOs consider them to fall under the trans umbrella... We're doomed.😐)

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That's it for April ! I also watched Godzilla × Kong but I have nothing to say about it lol

[papsiguesss]

Peter Cushing as Lawrence van Helsing in Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires

[moonymauk]

hi @hotvintagepoll I've made a letterboxd list with all the actors from this tournament if anyone would like an easy enough way to see all the guys and the movies they've been in <3

[blairsbennett]

gelphie as praying mantis

[diana-daphne]

a collection of my favorite letterboxd reviews of “Eloise at Christmastime”