Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Come and See 1985

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Sep 2023 2

  I was totally stunned for a long time after this movie. It was one of those experiences where you realize, only after the credits, that you’ve been tensing your body for hours. Thinking back on the movie, I still feel that tension.

  My partner asked me afterwards which image stood out to me the most. For me it was absolutely the stork that appears in the woods after Florya and Glasha are separated from the rest of the Resistance fighters. …

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  Andrei Rublev 1966

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 May 2024

  in the world there are words like faith and hope, devotion and destruction. i am a reader and a writer, and no filmmaker rives a schism between the word and the image like tarkovsky. no images have yet crossed my eyes as alive, as harrowing, as sacred. images that leaven the soul in which ways words can only gesture. 

  this is the world. 

  this, the world, glimmed through a divine key hole, projected back brimming with profound brilliance. 

  the delphic made lucid and palpable. the sublime stretched wide and illuminated. 

  who else can achieve such feats but a prophet?

Recent reviews

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  Running on Karma 2003

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Mar 2025 1

  absolutely hilarious and wild ride. as paddy said, “that was a pile of hot garbage” but i had so much fun i didn’t care

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  Boys State 2020

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  terrifying!

Popular reviews

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 11 Dec 2023 4

  bouta go off get ya strap ons 

  i’ve seen a lot of reviews labeling this movie as simple in the end or more shallow than it pretends to be, and i couldn’t disagree more. i see it as dfw says in “this is water” as “the truth with a bunch of rhetorical bullshit pared away.” 

  this is a movie about putting a baby’s brain inside a grown woman’s body and watching what happens. therefore it needs to be somewhat analyzed…

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  Universal Language 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Oct 2024

  second watch at NYFF. what a fuckin watch. lucky to see a q&a with Matthew Rankin and Pirouz Nemati. 

  at first i was reticent to the tone and the absurdism, and felt distanced by it, but as i continued watching, just like learning a language, i began to see, hear, understand, feel, and grow in touch with it. by the end i had cried three times, overwhelmed by a multitude of thoughts, emotions, and realizations throughout: the absurdity of life,…