Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  slightly underwhelmed and expected more? felt the “twist villain” was pretty predictable. there are a few interesting, tense scenes that work very well, but the best thing this movie has going for it are the characters and their dynamics with each other, especially Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett in particular who eat up every scene they’re in. the rest of the movie again felt pretty underwhelming, and yknow maybe it deserves a rewatch down the line when i’m less sleepy eyed and there isn’t an old white guy answering every call he gets in the front row with screen brightness 100

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  Seven Veils 2023

  ★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  walmart brand Tár, but lowkey brings up an interesting question of how much is too much when putting yourself in your art? do we create to heal past traumas, or will those traumas consume us and push away those we love and those we work together with to create said art?

  sucks that the script is lowkey pretty bad and it’s got some stilted performances from most of the cast. also there’s some weird meta-textual shit going on with the opera in the movie being the actual opera the director worked on? idk. but hey amanda seyfried absolutely kills this tho.

Popular reviews

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  Babylon 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Dec 2022 2

  An absolutely electric and cocaine fueled ride that never takes it foot off the gas pedal.

  Damien Chazelle just doesnt miss. After his misstep with First Man, Chazelle has returned to form in Babylon, and it’s a raunchy, yet profound take on cinema and the failings of Hollywood.

  Babylon exists in the same vain as contemporaries like Once Upon a Time In Hollywood and The Fabelmans, a love letter to early cinema. While films of these nature may seem trite, self-referential…

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 21 Jul 2023 2

  Today was a really special day. Not in the fact that I watched Barbie and Oppenheimer back to back (also a win), but that I spent it with two of my very best friends. Today is a day I’ll cherish really closely.

  Films are so powerful. How amazing is cinema, that it can spark hours of discussion, spark ingenuity, hope, ambition, reflections of the self, and so, SO much more. It is these discussions that led me and my friends…