Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  sat watching this with a straight face for the whole duration and then when the credits finished i shut my laptop and just rolled over into my boyfriend’s arms and violently sobbed for a while

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  Longlegs 2024

  ★★★ Rewatched 17 Jul 2024

  a bit of a victim of its own marketing I feel. the blog about the murders, the number to call, the constant quotes calling it the “Scariest Movie of the Decade” and the next Silence of the Lambs, led me to believe I would be watching an earth-shatteringly terrifying horror flick. what I got instead was a psychological thriller with elements of supernatural/religious horror. and it’s a very competent and well made thriller at that, with bold artistic choices and…

Popular reviews

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  Civil War 2024

  ★★½ Watched 13 Apr 2024

  Masterful on a technical level with amazing sound design and photography, filled with many great action sequences that will provide intensely bleak thrills. However, when you look past the spectacle, the movie falls apart harder than any other Alex Garland film under its practically-non-existent narrative pretensions. A script written in 2020 about American division furthering to the point of a Second Civil War has great potential to explore a lot of ideas, but Garland's insistence on remaining apolitical reduces the…

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  The Shining 1980

  ★★★★★ Added

  A slow burning, claustrophobic, unsettling, and masterful descent into madness concerning isolation, psychic powers, and a naked old woman. Jack Nicholson's manic mannerisms and Shelley Duvall's genuine fear bring the movie together wonderfully, with a terrifying Penderecki score that elevates the tension to its highest peaks.