Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  A film that knows the value of nuance, creativity, and concision—and consistently implements those components through captivating dialogue, an ensemble cast with no weak links, intriguing visual choices (I love the occasional glitches that remind viewers of their role as a surveillor just like George and Kathryn), atmospheric cinematography, and intelligent narrative/character progression. I already want to see it again!

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  Opus 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  Loooooved Utahan Midsommar 🥰

  Stylistically, Opus really scratched an itch for me. The cinematography was stunning and the production’s overall descent into the blurry limbo spanning fandom and fanatic faith was very well done. Its exploration into spectacle and spectator felt at once poignant and (more importantly) open ended. Props to Mark Anthony Green for trusting his audience enough to grapple with the material themselves instead of spoon feeding it to them, and a huge round of applause to Ayo Edebiri…

Popular reviews

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  Mean Girls 2024

  ½ Watched 11 Jan 2024

  That was painful. The Gen-Z-ifiction of a perfectly good film (2004) and musical (2017) was completely unnecessary and WHY could only three people actually sing?? Truly, Reneé Rapp, Auliʻi Cravalho, and Jaquel Spivey killed it and everyone else fell flat. I am so sick of the hyper-auto-tuning of actors who can’t sing. PLEASE start casting people who can act and sing! The humor was cringy; the “updating,” forced; and the musical edits/additions, botched. There was zero directorial vision and as a result, the entire movie felt directionless. Do yourself a favor and watch a ✨slime tutorial✨ of the stage musical. I promise it’ll cleanse your palate.

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 May 2024

  A gorgeous, aching, tragic, triumphant exploration of the infinite possibilities simultaneously trapped within and accessed through the tv set which have the potential to release the set norms regulating time and space from their static cells. In this transfigured (and trans-figured) landscape, the avant-garde queers the satellite transmission as a reappropriated form of resistance and community, offering a source of magnetizing energy that pulsates under the surface of bodies on screen and bodies as screens. 

  But enough of my ramblings! I stand in awe of this indie masterpiece and will be rewatching asap.