Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Cha Cha Real Smooth 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  soft and sad and so sweet . the Platonic ideal for a Sunday evening movie 💛

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  this is — and I mean this as a sincere compliment — a perfect plane flick. a slick, sexy, smart thriller, more of a dining room whodunit than MI5 spy caper. roughly 60x cooler and more sophisticated than the Knives Out franchise.

  scene-stealers: Kathryn and George’s home in general and its interior lighting in particular, Lydia Tár’s filler, Barbour’s advertising, YASMIN KARA-HANANI YASMIN KARA-HANANI YASMIN KARA-HANANI

Popular reviews

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  This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection 2019

  ★★★★½ Added

  a masterclass in restraint and subjectivity. this moves SLOWLY. pacing, but also movement. it’s stillness, and mourning. the narrator and score are unsettling in all the right ways. every single frame is a stunner

  we’ve gotten really used to seeing acrimonious relationships between neighbors in media. it was heartening to see a functional, supportive community here built on respect and tradition and dignity

  “in the name of progress” is such a rich and consistently disturbing trope

  in retrospect, there was probably much more Christian symbolism and meaning here than my blasphemous unenlightened heathen ass picked up on (Nazareth, Lazarus, corruption of paradise, etc)

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  The Red Shoes 1948

  ★★★★★ Added

  little-known fact: Craster was an early mentor to Lydia Tár