James

James

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art

> proceeds to rate every movie on a five-point scale

Favorite films

  • Persona
  • Y Tu Mamá También
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • All About My Mother

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  • The Last Showgirl

    ★½

  • Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

    ★★★½

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    ★★★

  • Bridget Jones's Baby

    ★★½

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  • The Last Showgirl

    The Last Showgirl

    ★½

    Totally incoherent. Totally irreducible. 1.5/5 or 6/5. The psychology of everyone involved in the writing/production/direction of this film must be studied. Pamela Anderson was great, but Kiernan Shipka was not beating the child star allegations. Underground mimetic quasi-AI slop The Substance pastiche — total subliminal half-digested regurgitation of theeee current. cultural. moment. But really just indescribable: my season’s must watch

  • Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

    Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

    ★★★½

    The ‘terrifyingly perfect’ zoomer nanny also does tai chi at 6:30pm on Thursday nights which is to say that she is literally me

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  • Queer

    Queer

    ★★★

    To the beautiful blond man with the azure nalgene bottle sitting four rows ahead of me… And what brings you to the cinema nova premiqueer alone, handsome?

  • Challengers

    Challengers

    ★★★★½

    I’ve said it before and I will say it again, again and again. For better or for worse: 2024 is the year of the bisexual man.

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