Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Violent Cop 1989

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Did you really have to run him over twice to make an arrest?

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  Spectre: Sanity, Madness and The Family 2021

  ★ Watched 09 Mar 2025 1

  ✅ Ripping off Boards of Canada 
  ✅ Ripping off Chris Marker
  ✅ Using photos of Pierre Schaeffer probably as some kind of clever Easter egg “for the heads”
  ✅ Indulgent analog media/equipment porn
  ✅ Needless exhibition of one’s own music and eurorack setup
  ✅ Cult stuff because apparently everything has to have cult stuff in it now 
  ✅ Cringe Japanophilia and vacuous philosophizing about “other” cultures

  An aggressively derivative collage of elder millennial / younger gen X hipster dude material…

Popular reviews

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  (500) Days of Summer 2009

  ½ Rewatched 20 Sep 2021 1

  Seeping from the fissures of this hideous movie you can see the semblances of what it wants to be: a charming sleeper hit bursting with quirky personality, hipster culture references, and sardonic commentary on modern romance. What you’re actually watching, however, is a deeply contrived studio-manufactured simulation of one, so desperate to be clever yet so relentlessly trite that I could feel my brain smoothing over as I watched it, as though I were stepping into a Target renovated overnight to look like an American Apparel.

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★ Watched 30 Dec 2024

  You can feel the emotional stakes at work in Eggers’ very personal relationship with this project. Unfortunately, it’s generally for the worse rather than the better.

  A strained desire to impress can be felt in nearly all aspects of the movie, whether we look to its stubborn loudness and intensity, its overwrought camera movements, or the heavy-handed telegraphing of its themes and symbols. It lacks the confidence and self-assuredness needed to create the kinds of quiet, tense, truly unnerving moments…

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