Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Flow 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Thanks to Matīss Kaža for coming to us before NYU my king 

  If you don’t like this you have no spirit, no joie de vivre. Remarkable picture

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Just barrels at you and leaves you flat on your ass. The credits will play out in full for this one (despite HBO’s infuriating insistence on pushing the new Eli Roth trash  on you)
   A true bummer and an excellent film. Thank God we got Schoenbrun right now

Popular reviews

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  Emilia Pérez 2024

  ½ Watched 15 Jan 2025 1

  Alright no joke this might genuinely be the worst movie I’ve ever seen in my entire life. What chemtrails are being sprayed, what fentanyl fluoride is being put into the water supply that this movie is the awards darling of the year so far? Is everyone just experiencing mass psychosis right now? Is this the new dancing plague? The Emilia Perez Plague?

  It’s rare for something to fail on every single possible level but man oh man is this just…

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  Paris, Texas 1984

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 13 Jan 2024 2

  Whew, OK.

  Sorry for the length in advance I know it’s annoying but I have to tell this story. 

  I happened to sit down next to Allison Anders for this screening. I think she and (presumably) her daughter sensed that I knew who she was, cause I was a bit standoffish, and they initiated conversation with me. We talked for a bit about the Egyptian and the movies we’d seen recently, and then we started discussing Wim Wenders. Allison told me…