movie ratings

this is a review of the movies i've watched. ★★★★★ = an all-time favorite and i could watch it over and over and never get sick of it.
★★★★☆ = really great film, highly enjoyable and rewatchable.
★★★☆☆ = pretty good, a decent watch but nothing spectacular.
★★☆☆☆ = not my favorite, had potential but fell short.
★☆☆☆☆ = absolutely terrible, would not recommend.
back to the future (1985)
★★★★★
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set in 1985, it follows marty mcfly (fox), a teenager accidentally sent back to 1955 in a time-traveling delorean automobile built by his eccentric scientist friend emmett "doc" brown (lloyd), where he inadvertently prevents his future parents from falling in love – threatening his own existence – and is forced to reconcile them and somehow get back to the future.

back to the future part ii (1989)
★★★★☆
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the film follows marty mcfly (fox) and his friend doctor emmett "doc" brown (lloyd) as they travel from 1985 to 2015 to prevent the former's son from tarnishing their family's future. when their arch-nemesis biff tannen (wilson) steals the delorean time machine and uses it to alter history for his benefit, the duo must return to 1955 to set things right.

back to the future part iii (1990)
★★☆☆☆
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the story continues immediately after the previous film; while stranded in 1955 during his time travel adventures, marty mcfly (fox) discovers that his friend dr. emmett "doc" brown (lloyd) is trapped in 1885 and was killed by biff's great-grandfather buford "mad dog" tannen (wilson). marty travels to 1885 with the intent of rescuing doc and then return to 1985, but matters are complicated when doc falls in love with clara clayton (steenburgen).

bottoms (2023)
★★★★☆
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two unpopular queer high-school students start a fight club to have sex before graduation.

but i'm a cheerleader (1999)
★★★★★
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megan bloomfield, a high school cheerleader, is sent to a residential in-patient conversion therapy camp by her parents to to "cure" her lesbianism. at camp, megan realizes that she is indeed a lesbian and, despite the "therapy", comes to embrace her sexuality.

clueless (1995)
★★★★☆
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the film follows a "beautiful, popular, wealthy" high school student who wants to do "good deeds". she befriends a newcomer and decides to give her a makeover while playing matchmaker for her teachers and examining her own life.

death becomes her (1992)
★★★☆☆
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when a novelist loses her man to a movie star and former frenemy, she winds up in a psychiatric hospital. years later, she returns home to confront the now-married couple, looking radiant. her ex-fiance's wife wants to know her secret, and discovers that she took the same potion which grants eternal life to the person who drinks it as she herself already has taken.

dirty dancing (1987)
★★☆☆☆
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it tells the story of frances "baby" houseman, a young woman who falls in love with dance instructor johnny castle while vacationing at a resort in the 1963 borscht belt.

ferris bueller's day off (1986)
★★★☆☆
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it tells the story of the eponymous character, a charismatic high school slacker who lives in chicago and skips school with his best friend cameron and his girlfriend sloane for a day, regularly breaking the fourth wall to explain his techniques and inner thoughts.

heathers (1988)
★★★★☆
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downtrodden high school student veronica sawyer—the only girl of her school clique not to be named heather—has her life disrupted by the arrival of jason "j.d." dean, a misanthrope intent on murdering the popular students and staging their deaths as suicides.

how to lose a guy in 10 days (2003)
★★★★☆
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a women's magazine writer and an advertising executive both begin a relationship with ulterior motives. the advertising executive and ladies' man, to win a big campaign, bets that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days. the women's magazine writer is working on an article on how to lose a man in 10 days.

inkheart (2008)
★★★☆☆
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a teenage girl discovers her father has an amazing talent to bring characters out of their books and must try to stop a freed villain from destroying them all, with the help of her father, her aunt, and a storybook's hero.

jawbreaker (1999)
★★★★☆
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the "flawless four", the most popular girls at reagan high school, cover up the murder of fellow member elizabeth "liz" purr after a kidnapping prank on her seventeenth birthday goes awry. when fern mayo encounters the trio staging a crime scene with her body, courtney shayne and marcie "foxy" fox blackmail her into joining them, causing julie freeman to question her place within the clique.

jennifer's body (2009)
★★★☆☆
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jennifer check, a demonically possessed high school student who kills her male classmates and devours their flesh in order to survive, while her bookworm best friend anita "needy" lesnicki must find a way to end her killing spree.

legally blonde (2001)
★★★★★
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the story follows elle woods, a sorority girl who attempts to win back her ex-boyfriend warner huntington iii by getting a juris doctor degree at harvard law school, and in the process, overcomes stereotypes against blondes and triumphs as a successful lawyer.

made of honor (2008)
★★★☆☆
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a lifelong playboy falls in love with his best friend, only to have her get engaged. she asks him to be her maid of honor.

matilda (1996)
★★★★★
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a girl gifted with a keen intellect and telekinetic powers uses both to get even with her callous family and free her kindly schoolteacher from the tyrannical grip of a sadistic headmistress.

napoleon dynamite (2004)
★★☆☆☆
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napoleon dynamite is a nerdy high-school student who deals with several dilemmas: befriending an immigrant who wants to be class president, awkwardly pursuing a romance with a fellow student, and living with his quirky family.

night at the museum (2006)
★★★☆☆
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it tells the story of a divorced father who applies for a job as a night watchman at new york city's american museum of natural history and subsequently discovers that the exhibits come to life at night, animated by a magical egyptian artifact and must find a way to keep them under control.

pretty in pink (1986)
★★☆☆☆
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andie walsh, a high school outcast from a working-class background. she navigates high school cliques, complex social class divides, and first love when she gets pursued by a wealthy, popular boy named blane.

saltburn (2023)
★★★☆☆
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set in oxford and northamptonshire, it focuses on a student at the university of oxford who becomes fixated with a popular, aristocratic fellow student, who later invites him to spend the summer at his eccentric family's estate.

set it up (2018)
★★★★☆
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the plot follows two overworked assistants in new york city who try to set up their demanding bosses on dates to take pressure off of them.

stardust (2007)
★★★★★
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the film follows tristan, a young man from the fictional town of wall in england. wall is a town on the border of the magical fantasy kingdom of stormhold. tristan enters the magical world to collect a fallen star to give to his beloved victoria, in return for her hand in marriage. he finds the star, who to his surprise, is a woman named yvaine. witches and the princes of stormhold are also hunting for yvaine. meanwhile, tristan tries to get her back to wall with him before victoria's birthday, the deadline for her offer.

the breakfast club (1985)
★★★☆☆
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the film tells the story of five teenagers from different high school cliques who serve a saturday detention overseen by their authoritarian vice principal.

the craft (1996)
★★★★☆
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four outcast teenage girls at a los angeles parochial high school who pursue witchcraft for their own gain and experience negative repercussions.

the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (2005)
★★★★★
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mere seconds before the earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman arthur dent is swept off the planet by his friend ford prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy."

the hot chick (2002)
★★★☆☆
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a popular but mean high school girl's body is magically swapped with that of a thirty-something career criminal, and she has to figure out how to get her body back before her upcoming prom night.