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Even a broken toilet flushes twice a day. 4th movie is a dedicated spot for a recent favorite.

Favorite films

  • Cure
  • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
  • Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans
  • A Complete Unknown

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  • Bad Lieutenant

    ★★★½

  • I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • Mulholland Drive

    ★★★★½

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  • Anatomy of a Fall

    Anatomy of a Fall

    ★★★★½

    This does such an incredible job of blending text and subtext to the point where discerning what the movie is "really about" is impossible. Is it about the nature of truth? The role of the contemporary family unit? Law and order? The movie does not give us an answer, it simply probes the audience's pre-existing assumptions on the subjects to uncomfortable degrees.

  • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

    Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

    ★★★★★

    A spellbinding commentary on fascism, art, and masculinity in the modern world. Absolutely a must watch in the age of digital fascism. Schrader does an amazing job of enlightening the viewer as to what Mishima saw as beauty while tearing it down as an artifice that denies true beauty.

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  • I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Mulholland Drive

    Mulholland Drive

    ★★★★½

    This is what happens when you love the movies too much

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  • Ready Player One

    Ready Player One

    ½

    This is the first movie I intentionally stopped watching because of how bad it is in a long time. Less valuable to the art of filmmaking than Gamer. Just brutal in every way.

  • Perfect Blue

    Perfect Blue

    ★★★★★

    I imagine this is what hell feels like