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Recent reviews

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  mother! 2017

  ★★½ Watched 10 Jan 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Q: Into the Storm 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Apr 2021

  A compelling moment of an investigator being at the epicenter of something far larger than he could ever expect and a bitterly absurd snapshot of where internet culture has led a generation of scared, angry, and confused people. Ultimately though Q as a complete document stumbles in its focus, spending too much time examining the personal lives of the main parties as the movement dwarves the sleazy, pathetic parties that started the fire.

Popular reviews

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  This is Hexagon Sun 2020

  ★★★½ Watched 04 Jan 2021

  A fan essay made enthralling by compelling production and an inherently enigmatic and enthralling subject matter. Taking into account that as much time is given to the discography as to the marketing ARG for their final album, this strikes me not as a documentary about the band but a documentary unwarily about admiration for the band and their intentionally obtuse and illusive relationship with their fanbase.

  The longest Adult Swim bump of all time.

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  The Water Slide 2018

  ★★★½ Watched 04 Apr 2021

  "I always set out to break all the records. I want to be the first to hit the bar to buy a drink and I want the first to meet a pretty girl and I want to be the first at everything and I want to have the biggest the tallest and the fastest rides."

  A chillingly crafted documentary vignette of undeserved ego and recklessly dangerous ambition. Asinine puff piece news segments and History channel day time filler has never…