Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Deya Neya 1963

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  The comedy of manners and the parallels worlds of the slow burn romance needed at least another hour to end at the pace it needed, but screetime and tuberculosis wait for none. Can't blame the writer of so many glorious songs derailing the narrative for his own ends. He lives! He writes! Bigger the triumph than the love and adulation it accidentally engenders, devolving from fanaticism to marriage.

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  Grand Theft Hamlet 2024

  ★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Using a game (as opposed to game engines) and the chaotic but, over time, also extremely serialised and distributed experience of playing it online and multi-player, where the animus is from the enormity of all the decisions — gameplay, eating, walking, working, peeing — that the pandemic turned reality into for so many over the years and continues to threaten reality with is the most original thing I've seen in a while. Everyone complaining that it's scripted forgets that so…

Popular reviews

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  Deadpool & Wolverine 2024

  ½ Watched 30 Jul 2024

  If the MCU is the longest running cinematic soap opera then it needs to be cancelled.

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  Evil Dead Rise 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Apr 2023

  Brings the horror from the early films and the slapstick humour of the later ones out from the forested cabin and its youthful delinquency into a full fledged low-income urban setting and its familial trappings. It then turns the screw on each of these, burning and twisting its tendrills into a twisted whole whose family romance takes no prisoners.

  The wide shots establish a world consistently choked by horizonality. The only way out is down. Giving birth is a(n) (im)position.…