Last year was a whopper of a year (I may post my gratitude/things-I-recall-with-fondness list from New Year's Eve at some point, or maybe it'll remain shrouded in mystery!!) but in the land of Pat, one major development was the glorious end of grad school. This came with a few perks (traveling to Japan without a laptop to inaugurate the era of "going somewhere without a looming sense of shirking responsibilities") but the one that rippled most thoroughly through the year was that I was finally able to start nibbling at the crumbs of culture again after about seven years of it being increasingly hard to set anxiety aside to, like, see a movie. Hooray for therapy and also materially changed circumstances!
After the jump, some movies (and maybe stray culture) I liked in 2019, a year that critics are calling "over"!
