Emily Yoshida

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Very very dumb person, please indulge me in this exercise to be a little less dumb

Los Angeles, CA

Favorite films

Recent reviews

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion 1997

★★★★ Watched 14 Dec 2024

Can you believe I never saw this movie until today? I knew about the dance scene but I didn’t know it would move me to tears. A movie about making the positive choice to be a creative idiot and in love with your best friend, and while everyone else is having babies having the bravery in front of god and everyone to be in a throuple with billionaire Alan Cumming. What a wonderful life affirming film!
The Substance 2024

★★ Watched 30 Oct 2024 1

A fun to watch but pretty dumb movie made for the internet, I like it less as less the more time goes by, a “lot” of visuals but not terribly fresh ones, most wouldn’t be out of place in a 00s grindhouse parody, will be screened alongside Saltburn in future double features

Popular reviews

Millennium Actress 2001

★★★★ Watched 25 Mar 2024

“I hate you more than I can bear, and I love you more than I can bear.”
A nightmarish look into the kind of monomaniacal mindset leads one to a career in acting. Desire, denial, no resolution, just scorching emptiness that burns you into something so pure you have to launch yourself into space. A endlessly looping viral dream you can’t get out of, that stunts you, that knocks you off the tracks of reality and sends you into an…
Oppenheimer 2023

★★ Watched 28 Jul 2023 4

Am I the only one who didn't really care for this movie but also didn't think it was under any obligation to depict the on-the-ground horrors of the Hiroshima bombing?
Movies can chose to be about things that are very big but show you things that are comparatively very finite. For example, ZONE OF INTEREST. Movies rule for this reason, among others.
In this case I don't think the finite thing *this* movie chose to be about is ultimately very…

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