Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  How to Murder Your Wife 1965

  ★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Goofy ahhh film bro…

  Like this is incredibly good filmmaking and direction and editing and blocking and writing style —I mean, really really good formally— but to a really ignorant and feeble end. An extremely bro-ey film regardless of its (one again FABULOUS) prowess, so much so that it’s hard to overlook.

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  The Man in the White Suit 1951

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  What a GOATED film man omfg. It's hilarious and so layered with its humour – there such a banging balance between highbrow and plain-old-goofy styles of comedy. From the mind-bogglingly silly chase scenes, right from the best slapstick films, to nuanced situational and verbal irony, commenting on culture with a meta lens. Still, what really stands out is how this is all sewn together in a brilliant political satire that implicates labour, industry, political stability, techno-futurism, post-capitalism, effective altruism, monopolisation & lobbyism,…

Popular reviews

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 08 Feb 2023 1

  With an emphasis on mundaneness in dialogue and events, Charlotte Wells employs her own form of neo-realism: making the viewer feel as though not supposed to be in the room and private conversation that we're placed in. It's highly impressive. But beyond the first-degree impression, I suppose I only really 'got its whole beauty' when I allowed myself to think about it for a while.

  I love the fact that it's the equivalent of postmodern literature. The writing is designed…

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  2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Mar 2023 1

  Hal, possibly the worst guy for joint rotation.

  
  ps, ok, now my actual review:

  What frustrated me was that postmodernism was used as an excuse to shy away from deeper and more critical exploration of ideas —albeit really fucking cool ideas. The film was a really amazing and unique viewing experience that I'll probably remember forever, and it did so much; sadly, it should have done more. Don't take this as me yanking the traditional suggestions that (a) the characters…