Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Greasy Strangler 2016

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  This is the most disgusting movie I’ve ever seen. Who knew a Jared Hess/John Waters mash-up could be such revolting alchemy?

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  Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016

  ★★ Rewatched 17 Mar 2025

  It continues to be insane that one director could have all the resources available to him that he could ever want, coupled with excellent casting, and yet get these characters SO WRONG.

Popular reviews

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  A Christmas Story 1983

  ★ Watched 26 Dec 2022

  I’ve been trying to like this movie for four decades. It’s boring and unfunny. I think it’s going to need to be OK that I don’t like it.

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  The Wailing 2016

  ★★★ Watched 17 Feb 2025

  I tend to enjoy K-horror, but I found this to be very challenging and not nearly as satisfying (or scary) as a lot of other folks on here. There’s demons, ghosts, possession, plagues, zombies, folk horror, and arcane rites throughout, which, for me, created needless muddle and bloat in a tale that had the potential to be a mean, streamlined, paranoiac nightmare of a film. The changing, ineffable, deceptive face of evil is a tantalizing subject for horror, but when…