Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  A Real Pain 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Feb 2025

  “My pain is unexceptional so I don’t feel the need to burden everybody with it” is basically my motto.

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  Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977

  ★★★★ Rewatched 23 Jan 2025

  Director's cut

Popular reviews

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  The Batman 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2022

  I miss the question mark cane. Riddler has always been my favorite member of the rogues gallery, but I still don't know if I'm sold on this incarnation. There's kinda two types of bat villains. There's the more grounded "realistic" ones like Joker (evil clowns are still real af), Penguin (crime boss who likes birds), Catwoman (cat burglar). And then there's the more fantastical ones like Poison Ivy (can control plants), Mr Freeze (with his freeze gun), and Killer Croc…

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  David Lynch: The Art Life 2016

  ★★★½ Rewatched 16 Jan 2025

  "...it's a continuum, and we're all going to be fine at the end of the story."

  RIP