Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Talk to Me 2022

  ★★½ Watched 02 Jan 2024

  better than I thought it would be! went out and bought an axolotl because of this movie.

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  Cure 1997

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 25 Oct 2023

  4th watch, still the scariest movie ever made.

Popular reviews

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  Joker 2019

  ★★ Watched 26 Sep 2019 2

  i'm tired, todd. your movie isn't quite as unconscionably bad as some are saying, neither does it evangelise the lead enough to substantiate the discourse around the "violence" the film might incite - what's actually the most impressive facet of joker is how consistently it attempts to read as mythos, as an all-encompassing tragedy about a broken man's radicalization against a system of abuse, all while engaging with its ideas in a manner so shallow that the all too familiar…

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  All About Lily Chou-Chou 2001

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Jul 2019

  most of my fav material is in the first section (the character spotlights at night were an incredible touch), but from the 30 minutes following the end of the vacation this felt like it started to drag significantly and i had some extensive confusion over certain character roles - though it's most likely my own fault for not looking into what kind of film this would be.

  having said that, all about lily chou-chou is so impossible not to love…