Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Memoria 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Jun 2022 2

  Before the movie I got into a conversation with a homeless ex-con who told me about how long and unending the nights are when you have nowhere to sleep. How vulnerable it feels to have to let your guard down and risk everything you have in order to make it to the next day. In order to survive, he said, you have to become invisible. They are the invisible people. But if you know where to look, you will see.…

Recent reviews

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  Short Cuts 1993

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 17 Mar 2025 1

  “Till the wheels come off, baby.”

  Interpersonal relationships as plate tectonics

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  True Stories 1986

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  “Well if this is being nuts, then I don’t ever want to be sane.”

  Joyous feels like too small a word here for a lonely country bachelor looking for love such as myself. Helped me see part of my own essence that I’ve been losing sight of with new eyes and speaking it in terms that I’ve never been able to articulate. The capacity for love is held within everything. Everyone has tones, rhythms, their own station. Equally life-affirming, hilarious, and absurd. Ready to call this one of the great humanist works of art.

Popular reviews

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  Inland Empire 2006

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Apr 2019 17

  I don't say this lightly: this may be the scariest film ever made.

  One of my biggest pet peeves since I started getting into movies around 5 years ago has been hearing that damn word over and over again: terrifying.

  “He gives a terrifying performance.”
  “What a terrifying villain!”
  “Did you see that part when that thing happened? Wow! That was terrifying!”

  This word is tossed around so often to describe anything the least bit uncomfortable or tense, that it has lost…

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  The Master 2012

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 08 Sep 2016 4

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