Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Emilia Pérez 2024

  ½ Watched 04 Mar 2025

  oh...oh no

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★ Rewatched 04 Jan 2025

  I was deeply unsettled by the Herzog version when I first saw it years ago, and I think about the ending quite often. It builds on and ultimately (IMO) transcends the source material to reveal a distinctive, perfectly executed vision of darkness and beauty that is both delicate and seething. Nothing in this film gave me more than a fleeting surface-level thrill even in the moment, and certainly nothing stuck with me afterwards (within two months I had already started…

Popular reviews

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  Summering 2022

  ★ Watched 22 Jan 2022

  Usually when I give a film one star I have a rant ready to go, but this was just...mind-numbingly bland. It's what you would get out if you fed every cliched indie "dramedy" trope into an algorithm and told it to produce a film that would get into Sundance.

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★ Watched 22 May 2022 1

  I've only walked out of a film a handful of times in my life, but I would have walked out after the first 20 minutes or so of this if I hadn't been with other people. The tone, editing and visual style were just entirely off from the get go. I felt myself wanting to run away as I was forced to sit through 2.5 hrs of repetitive scenes and feeble/misplaced jokes that did not land at ALL (the most…