Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Happy Hour 2015

  ★★★★★ Added

  Illuminating when you watch this through the lens of the Amber Heard trial.

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  The Bling Ring 2013

  ★★★★ Added

  The Anti-Nina Sokolovic!

Popular reviews

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  Crazy Rich Asians 2018

  ½ Added

  Triumph of the Will for the bourgeois woke

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  Pulse 2001

  ★★★★★ Added 1

  Summary: A metaphor for social media bots that zombify the public.

  Review: Kurosawa tries to see the future, and it’s bleak, but he offers us two glimmers of hope by the end of the movie: a red toolbox and a red shipping vessel. “Pulse” rings in like an omen. (Warning: spoilers ahead.)

  Analysis: The year is 2022, and bots are everywhere (see #JusticeForJohnnyDepp, Brexit, the Trump election). Voices linger forever on the internet: they’re like ghosts that never die, that…

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