Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  American Splendor 2003

  ★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  inventive format and paul giamatti can’t quite make me care about this

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  Uncut Gems 2019

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 17 Mar 2025

  watched with the director’s commentary. adam sandler was robbed of the best actor.

  the last 30 minutes are some of the most exhilarating cinema i’ve ever watched

Popular reviews

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★ Watched 27 Jan 2025

  very conflicted about this! part one is a magisterial epic that reaches the crescendo of the (in movie) intermission so strongly that I was practically floating out of the cinema buzzing for part two. I can't emphasise enough how much I was primed to make this my movie of the year.

  then we hit part two and it just totally flounders lol. the writing really craters and tanks the movie with it. which is a big shame because I think…

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★½ Watched 20 Sep 2024

  enjoyed the sound and how it was all shot. it all felt loud and quite visceral but it might well the dumbest movie i’ll see all year. the dialogue is maybe the worst i’ve heard in a movie in ages. it’s giving “the menu”

  eta: no it’s giving saltburn. i don’t understand the central conceit. it starts off suggesting they’re the same people but then it becomes clear they’re two different people 

  so what does demi moore get out of it? nothing! doesn’t work, sorry

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