Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Bones and All 2022

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 13 Mar 2025

  really good honestly

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  Last Summer 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 05 Mar 2025

  A hard movie to enjoy per se, a haunting and quite evil one, and yet stunning in a bleak way. All the characters are so dislikable and flawed, each so crippled by hypocrisy and self-contradiction that it actually feels quite realistic. Power of all kinds will easily do even the most drastic and immoral things to preserve itself and the status quo, even when wielded by those who seem sworn to justice when it doesn’t threaten their own ambitions, desires,…

Popular reviews

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  Queer 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Dec 2024

  I will need to rewatch….

  I really see this as a companion piece to Call Me By Your Name; in classic Guadagnino fashion, he’s exploring different angles and possible configurations of the loneliness that arises in relationships that are constrained by regressive social forces and rules, the weight of these on our individual souls, and how communication and true connection to another through this weight is insurmountable. If CMBYN was a coming of age where gayness was discovered in secret,…

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  Lost Highway 1997

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Apr 2024

  this was spine chilling, and I think this is the kind of “horror” that simultaneously triggers in me paranoid thought spirals for a week after watching and that also I can’t look away from. That’s kinda the lynch magic anyway, im learning.

  But wow. Dark as hell. Something about 90s set design in general, with the sleek interiors and exteriors, ultra refined, I think does better than any era of design in juxtaposing glossy facades to the darkness lurking just…