Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Youth in Revolt 2009

  ★★★ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  2000's indie films are so strange to me because they had so many popular actors and generally interesting artistic directions and usage of the medium, but still managed to make fairly forgettable films with fairly simple themes and plotlines. at times it feels like wasted potential, how did a film with all of this going on end up so mediocre? there is a strong sense of emulating something that they aren't quite sure of, there's bits of wes anderson in…

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  Zola 2020

  ★★★½ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  Really fun to look back on what Coleman Domingo had going on in this, seeing an actor that I've mostly just seen in more serious dramatic work bringing that kind of dedication to a much zanier role is a treat. I think the pacing is a little bit strange, could be a side effect of adapting a twitter thread, and if that's all that's super noticeable then i think it was a success. I rewatched parts of Janicza Bravo's gregory…

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 May 2024

  we walked in the theatre as the sun began to set, shades of pink and blue interrupted by small flashes of lightning. we walked out of the theatre into the night, the darkness would be overwhelming if not for pink lights that lined the street, my hair was in my face because of the wind but I didn’t mind. it’s been a bit over an hour since we left the theatre but there’s a part of me that is still sitting there.

  You’d have to stop the world just to stop the feeling. 

  I saw the TV glow.

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  Before Sunrise 1995

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Apr 2024 1

  Do you ever yearn? I yearn. 

  I mean I knew I was gonna like it going in, so I really can’t be too surprised. I don’t really know how to feel about Jesse at the end but I feel like that’s intentional. I’m glad that I don’t know too much about the other two in the trilogy other than a vague sense of them but I might let this one breathe for a bit, or watch the other two in…