Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  Pretty good flick to catch with your mom in the dingy movie theater inside the mall.

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  Charisma 1999

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Feb 2025

  Feels like a J. G. Ballard novel (a bunch of oddballs bouncing off each other, circling an ecological metaphor) but with a sense of humor.

Popular reviews

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  The Zone of Interest 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Feb 2024

  I'm torn because I appreciate Zone of Interest's technical feats in isolation (the sound design, the eerie opening and closing music, the intricate compositions, etc) but in the final mix they feel like parlor tricks that distract from the film's main goal: miring you in a headspace of dread contemplation. What with *current events*, the concept of complicity -- no matter how many layers abstracted from the ongoing criminality and genociding -- has been taking up a lot of my…

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  Bonjour Tristesse 1958

  ★★★ Watched 19 Jun 2020 2

  Beautiful photography, but I could not muster up a single shit to give about these people.

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