Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Malignant 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  What an opening. Feels like a 2000s horror movie (complimentary). For those of us millennials that started watching horror in middle school, James Wan still really knows how to make a horror film that just oozes that feeling of exactly what you imagine when you think of the genre. This one has camp, some classic scares, a perfect spooky house, and great cinematography. I didn't think it was as surprising as others did, but I love that they committed to the ridiculousness of it all.

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  Adolescence 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  The absolute skill and craftsmanship from all involved to do four episodes each in one take, in different locations, is deeply inspiring. Intriguing, engaging, and gutwrenching piece. I felt like I was physically in pain watching the ending. Owen Cooper is mindblowing.

Popular reviews

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  Presence 2024

  ★ Watched 24 Jan 2025 2

  I feel like I've been pranked. This is not a horror movie. It's an atrociously written, barely acted family drama where the stock characters are all unlikeable and have cliche "arguments" constantly, but it's from the POV of the "presence" so occasionally the camera shakes or someone looks right at it and goes "hellloooo?!!!" And it actually ends up being about (spoiler alert) the onscreen drugging and attempted/started assault and murder of a teenage girl. Lucy Liu what the fuck are you doing here.

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Dec 2024

  So I am someone who is extremely attached to the original 1922 Nosferatu. It is a huge part of my personality, was a big part of my film studies in college, and a big part of my gender identity discovery. No one needed that background, but all to say I went into this knowing I might hate it. It took my breath away. I could feel in every moment that Eggers loves Nosferatu like I love Nosferatu. The details, the…