Ernest

Ernest

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Favorite films

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Stalker
  • Grand Illusion
  • Death by Hanging

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  • Paddington in Peru

    ★★★★

  • I'm Still Here

    ★★★★

  • All Too Clear

    ★★★½

  • Beautiful Men

    ★★½

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  • Paddington in Peru

    Paddington in Peru

    ★★★★

    The ideological consequences of Brexit, the return from unintended exile, the weight of familial mental illness, the insatiable greed of colonialism… is there anything Paddington can’t solve?

  • I'm Still Here

    I'm Still Here

    ★★★★

    Incredibly evocative of time and place, and plays its emotional beats with a hand that doesn’t feel cloying. Flash forwards felt a bit strange to me, but I get that they were necessary to portray the devastation of years.

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  • He Thought He Died

    He Thought He Died

    ★★

    Watched at TIFF

    Anyone involved in making this movie please don’t read this because I don’t have many nice things to say.

    I try my best to appreciate experimental film on its own terms, but this film escapes coherence. I find it hard to believe that this isn’t someone’s first student film. The amateurishness feels neither charming nor purposeful, and the aimlessness feels like either painfully obvious meta commentary or sheer incompetence. The sound mixing and foley work was sonically…

  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    ★★★★

    Movie trope that makes me froth at the mouth (in a good way) is what I will call the Toopy and Binoo Dilemma, wherein a silent character cannot effectively communicate to the speaking character, who then makes buffoonish, uninformed decisions as a result. This is like Titus Andronicus to me