Favorite films

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  Nickel Boys 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Mar 2025

  incredible. such bold and unique storytelling that becomes more and more ethereal yet realized as each minute passes. while i was worried at the beginning that this focused lens of perspective would limit my emotional connection to the story, this worry quickly dispelled. 

  nickel boys serves to act as a pathway to memory. the diegetic music, sounds of everyday life, and scenes that capture the essence of what it is to be human, combine for a spiritual experience. most striking…

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  Blue Velvet 1986

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Jan 2025

  A candy-colored clown they call the sandman
  Tiptoes to my room every night
  Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper
  Go to sleep, everything is alright
  
  lynch, you have a knack for creating worlds that enable us to feel. everything. so singular, so familiar. so strange, so inviting. thank you.

Recent reviews

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  All We Imagine as Light 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  stripped back and slice of life-core. immense restraint and poise demonstrated by the director and the actors. reminded me at times of wong kar wai.

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  Step Brothers 2008

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 12 Mar 2025

  helloooooo ms. lady

Popular reviews

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  Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Oct 2023

  i could write a thesis on this story and scorsese’s herein rendition. in short, a modern masterpiece. what a wonder that scorsese can still churn out these vile, evil, frenetic yet meditative, and insidious movies at 81. 

  and yet — he is reinventing himself in killers of the flower moon. there are stylistic nods to some of his past works. but killers is almost a rejection of what a lot of us thought it would be. it certainly isn’t just…

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  The Trial of the Chicago 7 2020

  Watched 20 Oct 2020 1

  "The whole world is watching."

  I admire Aaron Sorkin. I don't think any modern screenwriter has created their own lexicon and iconography as well as Sorkin has. From The West Wing, to The Social Network, he has had his lasso looped around the script and commanded it to his will.

  But even with all of this success, I still don't find his style perfect and his directing is rough around the edges to say the least. The Trial of the…