Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Fall Guy 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 07 May 2024

  The movie itself is mid, but the third act might be a masterpiece.

  Come here for the s'plosions. Stay for that ending!

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  Flowers of Evil 2013

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Dec 2023

  Maybe one day I will find a therapist who can crawl into my head and uproot all the broken parts in me the way Nakamura-chan did with Kasuga-kun. Hopefully it won't be as scary or painful as this, though, and I hope it wont leave me quite as broken. Le sigh . . .

Popular reviews

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  The Lover 1992

  ★½ Rewatched 26 May 2020 1

  A pretty film. However, poorly delivered melodrama, non-stop statutory rape/pedophilia, and romanticized colonialism make for an awful mix of unwatchable elements.

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  Satantango 1994

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 19 Apr 2020

  Sátántangó is streaming virtually through Film at Lincoln Center during the COVID-19 pandemic here.

  I don't have particular rules surrounding what films I will watch, though I am drawn to certain elements more than others. I often say to myself that I'll watch anything at least once. Of my favorite films, I can say this: they often elude me my first screening, slipping through my fingers like a sand sculpture I try to grasp instead of experience. Each time I…