Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Gorge 2025

  ★★★ Watched 14 Feb 2025

  Missed opportunity to cast Aidan Gillen just to say “Welcome to The Gorge.”

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  Scrooged 1988

  ★★★★ Rewatched 24 Dec 2024

  Adore how wild/weird this movie gets. Maybe the Christmas movie I’ve seen the most next to Christmas Vacation.

Popular reviews

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  Joker 2019

  ★★ Rewatched 14 Jan 2020 3

  It's abundantly clear on rewatch that this movie has the appearance of depth, but Todd Phillips doesn't actually have the balls to commit to a damn thing.

  It's "a little" about mental illness and society and loners and the media and politics and abuse. But it's not *actually* about any of these things because it doesn't have anything substantial to say about them. It peppers them in like window dressing, but because Phoenix's performance is genuinely great and the craft…

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  Malignant 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 11 Sep 2021

  Hardest I’ve laughed in a movie all year.