Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Collateral 2004

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  I think this is the tightest movie I've ever seen. Deep without being pretentious, action packed yet excellently paced, every performance is top tier, and the camera work is dripping with attention to detail and love for it's environment.

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  The Perks of Being a Wallflower 2012

  ½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  I get it, I get it. Nostalgic, influential, if you're my age you remember when things were "like this". All that does not a good movie make.

  I think this movie isn't just bad, it's disrespectful. Not just to the topics it pretends to care about, but to the viewer itself. It's like every inch of this movie is insecurely aware that someone is watching it, desperately attempting to be cool and deep. It's by sheer accident the closest Perks…

Popular reviews

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  Princess Mononoke 1997

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 11 Mar 2025

  im tired of acting like its not my favourite ghibli movie, the spirited away cretins have had a chokehold on Da Discourse for far too long. i gotta say it: i dont even think spirited away is that good. THIS SHIT, however, fucking rules! probably the origin of my fantasies of becoming a mongolian sheep herder on the steppe too

  holy shit the english dub is baaaaaad though, this one's a mandatory sub watch

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  Martyrs 2008

  ½ Watched 19 Jan 2025

  I'm finally ready to speak my truth: I do not fuck with Martyrs. Not only do I dispute that it's deep, I dispute that it's even trying to be deep. I would love for one of the "you don't get it" crowd to explain to me what exactly I'm supposed to get.

  I see absolutely no evidence that any of the themes are deeper than surface level, and all praise of them reads to me as post-hoc justification for the…