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  Megalopolis 2024

  ★½ Watched 27 Sep 2024 1

  The year's most rousing and disastrous spectacle also happens to be an absolute riot. The Room is funny because it's dumb. Megalopolis is funny because the same generational talent who conceived Apocalypse Now somehow believes that any part of this constitutes his best, most creative effort. 

  "Nothing is so terrible as a pretentious movie. I mean a movie that aspires for something really terrific and doesn’t pull it off is shit, it’s scum… and everyone will walk on it as such." - Francis Ford Coppola

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  Miller's Crossing 1990

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 23 Jun 2024

  I was scrolling through letterboxd one morning — as one does. And I saw this review by some schmuck who wrote something to the effect of: "Tommy is a man with no morals or principles who tries to convince himself and others that he does." The review was dismissive in tone, inferring that the Coen brothers portrayed an unlikeable double-crosser and subjected the viewer to the whims of Tommy's desperate survival tactics.

  Maybe it was their first time watching Miller's…

Recent reviews

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  Ashes and Diamonds 1958

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  Interesting formal things going on, specifically in terms of holding a shot and playing with close-up doubles. The bedroom montage has a glorious use of fades, but there is also a load of awkward, unrhythmic cuts in the bar scenes that disrupt any sense of flow between the narratives — even though they are conceptually quite cool.

  The plot is paper thin, but I don't think that's the issue. Ashes and Diamonds has the foundations of a compelling narrative, and…

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  The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 06 Mar 2025

  My vote for the best ending scene of any Woody Allen movie

Popular reviews

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  Glass Onion 2022

  ★½ Watched 23 Nov 2022 4

  Cinema is so dead.

  Who edited this?

  Who wrote this trash?

  Genuinely, what the fuck?

  Is this the same man who delivered us Knives Out?

  WHAT IS THIS THING???

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  Green Border 2023

  ★★½ Watched 10 Nov 2023

  Victim films are terrible to review. They come from a humanitarian perspective but are inherently torture-porn and a narrative non-starter. Criticizing them makes me feel like a right-wing asshole who can't open up his heart.

  But I love good stories, and unfortunately, subjecting characters to constant violence doesn't do a thing. It turns identifiable victims into screaming meat bags. The narrative drive is not what they do, but what will happen to them. This can be engaging, but only if the…