Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Porco Rosso 1992

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 13 Dec 2023

  first time watching this in French and Miyazaki was right, Jean Reno is the best Porco Rosso

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  Silent Night 2023

  ★★½ Watched 16 Dec 2023

  unheroic bloodshed

Popular reviews

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  Capital in the Twenty-First Century 2019

  ★★½ Watched 24 Jul 2019

  This film is completely inadequate for our times: a broad survey of the history of our destructive economic system, in which technocrats gently suggest 'we need to fix capitalism'. It could be an Elizabeth Warren speech. If you're looking for anything resembling radical political or economic ideas, this is not the film for you.

  It is unconscionable to me that a film titled 'Capital in the 21st Century' makes no mention of the climate crisis–the defining problem of our time.…

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  Taboo 1999

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Apr 2017 2

  how is this not widely considered a masterpiece?!