Nic Austin

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Film & Culture Writer 🎥 · Queer media scholar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ · Favorites are my top films from the past four years ✨

Favorite films

  • One Battle After Another
  • Nickel Boys
  • The Zone of Interest
  • Aftersun

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  • Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

    ★★★

  • Passion

    ★★★½

  • The Hot Chick

    ★★

  • Wedding Crashers

    ★★★

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Send Help
★★★★ Liked Watched

There’s something deeply satisfying about watching Sam Raimi return to the exact brand of chaos he does best: equal parts gore, slapstick, and sadism. Send Help absolutely revels in it. It’s gross, it’s mean, it’s a little unhinged, and somehow it all coheres into one of his most purely entertaining swings in years.

What really anchors the madness, though, is Rachel McAdams, who goes full throttle in a performance that’s as physical as it is layered. Linda Liddle enters the…

Sentimental Value
★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

Rewatching Sentimental Value enhanced my admiration for how precisely Joachim Trier calibrates performance and memory into something quietly devastating. What lingers most this time isn’t just the story itself, but how fully it lives inside its actors.

Renate Reinsve gives the film its emotional volatility. Her Nora is expressive, searching, and often unable to contain the weight of what she’s inherited. Her scenes crackle, especially opposite Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas and Stellan Skarsgård, where every line feels like it’s brushing up…

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Outcome
★½ Watched

Fittingly shot in piss stain yellow.

Inside Llewyn Davis
★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

I love this movie more each time I watch it. Any film that uses a cat as a motif gets an automatic 5 stars. Plus, it's got Oscar Isaac. It's a soul stirrer.

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One Battle After Another
★★★★★ Liked Watched

This pussy don’t pop for you.

One Battle After Another? More like One Mother After Another! From Teyana Taylor to Regina Hall, the women here are formidable, commanding the screen even when their characters are off it. And Chase Infiniti, having only starred in a few projects, radiates instant star power. As Willa, she channels raw ferocity yet never lets you forget she’s just a teenager who needs her father.

Speaking of dads: Leo is magnetic as a burnt-out ex-revolutionary,…