Favorite films

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  Dead Bent 2024

  Watched 16 Feb 2025

  My friend and I made this a couple months back and we just now put it up on Letterboxd. Would really appreciate anyone who’d take the time to watch and log it on here. Let me know what y’all think! I’ll put the link below. Thanks guys.

  https://youtu.be/4_MYsiE-mr0?si=IZp_tZ6pvxoEwOeN

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  All That Heaven Allows 1955

  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Dec 2024 1

  The perfect melodrama. I often find it challenging to write about older movies and classic Hollywood cinema usually due to their simplicity, which on the surface, feels almost too straightforward—too cleanly executed—to unpack in a meaningful way. But that simplicity is a sort of illusion, a deliberate economy of expression that hides deeper layers of nuance beneath its polished exterior. These films rarely indulge in leaps of logic or contrived narrative shortcuts and instead opt to explore emotional complexity in…

Recent reviews

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  Game Night 2018

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  This thing is so competently directed I’m willing to look past any and all narrative flaws (which are honestly few and far between). Well-written, impressively shot, and genuinely funny; an unassuming banger and a formally assured crowd-pleaser to be shown at the next sleepover. Let’s just stop using Queen songs in movies, though… like forever please.

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  Alphaville 1965

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Kind of an inexplicably in love with this one, and although it’s not my favorite Godard, there’s something intangibly harrowing about its impossibly streamlined emotional passivity. Maybe it’s just the lackadaisical approach to an omnipresent A.I. insertion that wanes on me, but then again there’s an innate power to personal, poetic expression being the ultimate demise of the labor-oriented aristocracy and the dehumanization of mortality. I think Brazil is just the fully realized version of this kind of movie.

Popular reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025 2

  Very standard as far as political commentary goes, especially with the obvious Trump/Elon insert in Ruffalo’s Kenneth Marshall and inclusion of pho religious devotion, but nevertheless poignant and remarkably timely. My criticisms pretty much end there; this thing is surprisingly somber and self-reflective. There’s a couple moments (namely the final sequence of existential liberation) that stopped me dead in my tracks. Wasn’t prepared to be genuinely moved, but I’m so glad I was. Pattinson is incredible; it’d been too long since I’d seen him on the big screen.

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  Before Midnight 2013

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  Maybe the best looking of the series…? Linklater is so damn consistent. Maybe I cried- so what?