Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls 2023

  ★★ Watched 11 Aug 2024

  Extremely low budget and underacted and underwritten, but this is still a wacky ride. One of the strangest films I’ve seen — it’s kind of like Scooby Doo directed by a teenage Jodorowsky

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  Byzantium 2012

  ★★★ Watched 21 May 2024

  A very weird movie, and not in the it’s-so-out-there crazy kind of weird but just weird in what they were trying to do and what they expected the audience to take from it. Good acting from all sides but the overall takeaway is hard to figure out — the climactic payoff doesn’t seem equal to the film itself

Popular reviews

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  Orlando 1992

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Apr 2020

  This movie holds a special and transfixing (ha!) place in the minds of most trans people I think. When I heard of it as a young person in the 1990s I thought - a story where a man becomes a woman? Where do I sign up? I have adored Tilda Swinton in all the years since, but I never saw the film until now - despite my pretentious run of movie watching as a teenager, this was never part of…

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2022

  One of the greatest movies ever made. Wildly imaginative, heartbreaking, a text for how to live life as a person in an endless, empty, confusing universe