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  Afire 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 03 Nov 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  In a Violent Nature 2024

  Watched 21 Jun 2024

  the director has referenced malick and the van sant death trilogy as influences in interviews, which of course is strange territory for a gory slasher flick but something this does impressively is effectively integrate that kind of meditative “arthouse” language with that of a bottom-shelf friday the 13th ripoff movie, some of which carry a kind of (usually unintentional) droning, languid pace anyway….it’s an intriguing gamble to meld those two sensibilities, and one that pays off pretty well in this.…

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  Watched 14 Aug 2022

  i found this to be exhausting and relentlessly annoying, a patchwork of nice-sounding-but-ultimately-meaningless platitudes dressed up in flashy clothes, but i will be charitable: this is, aesthetically speaking, so aggressively opposed to my own personal tastes that it might as well have been made in a factory to terrorize me personally. so, lest some random A24 teen find this review, call me contrarian/heartless and then find my home address & post it online, i will just leave my thoughts on this there and chalk this up as a big Not For Me.

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  Skinamarink 2022

  Watched 26 Nov 2022

  last year, i wrote the following on here about a very different movie (the spirit of the beehive):

  sometimes when i can’t sleep & my mind is wandering i’ll find myself mapping out places i remember from my childhood in my head. (…) all of these places feel so large and imposing in my memory; i’m guessing that’s because they were so large and imposing to tiny me & they just stayed that way in the recesses of my brain. one thing…