Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Holdovers 2023

  ★★½ Watched 27 Mar 2025

  I wanted to like this because the cinematography was gorgeous, but I simply could not stop feeling annoyed at watching a film about wealthy white boarding school men in which literally every woman character mainly exists to support the character development of the two protagonists... though her performance was incredible, even Da'Vine's character mainly just dialogued Mr Hunham into better behaviour or comforted Angus Tully like.. the fuck...

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  The Painted Veil 2006

  Watched 11 Mar 2025

  stupid and orientalist, and edward norton plays the most annoying man on earth, that's all you need to know. spare yourselves.

Popular reviews

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  Shiva Baby 2020

  ½ Added 1

  I simply cannot empathise in the slightest with people who lie themselves into socially horrible and cringey situations for absolutely no reason whatsoever. My aversion to this film and this character is off the charts.

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 05 Jan 2025

  So impressed with this film - it could've gone so wrong but the directors have skillfully steered the politics of vampire horror into critical feminist theory. Nosferatu (2024) rejects the heavily antisemitic aesthetic and narrative traditions of Nosferatu and Dracula of days past, and instead leans into understanding Count Orlok's malignant nature fundamentally as one of intrusion, violation, fixation, and obsession. The zeitgeist is no longer "the hooked-nosed foreign-accented Ethnic Other", but rather it is the patriarchal violence of our…