Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Holiday 2006

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Dec 2024

  Chinese Woody Allen

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  Mad God 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Oct 2024

  This is clearly a film that doesn’t care if you like it or not. No coherent plot, just a slideshow of a hellscape that feels like you’re stuck in a cursed version of one of those early 2000s flash games where you torture stick figures except now the stick figures are hyper-detailed, painstakingly crafted, and miserable in ways you never imagined. Everything moves with a sickly weight. It’s not smooth, and that’s why it’s so visceral. This is art for the sake of catharsis. Every frame is drenched in decay. Hypnotic… badass… perfect.. who gives a fuck about the plot? I’m gonna go FUCK SHIT UP!!!!

Popular reviews

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  Five Year Diary, Reel 22: A Short Affair (and) Going Crazy (August 23–September 1, 1982) 1982

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 May 2023

  Outstretching my psyche to believe, to understand, to react, to love this in it’s entirety. What a treasure.

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  Open Doom Crescendo 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Oct 2023

  Endlessly grateful I was presented with the opportunity to experience this.

  Films like these, funny enough surprisingly yet introspective— invoke something incredibly personal. I am typically going to be an unconscious hater for films longer than it seems necessary. I let the annoyance subside and watch films out of guilt and retain nothing out of spite. But the runtime of this can only be described as necessary. The melodies and layered soundscapes throughout held my attention. Sick music, along with…

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