Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Punch-Drunk Love 2002

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Feb 2025

  yeah brother

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  Wicked 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Nov 2024

  the only time ariana grande didn’t work as glinda for me was during popular

Popular reviews

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  The Boy and the Heron 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Oct 2023

  how do you live?/the boy and the heron is so delightfully refined, gorgeous, and rich with honesty in a way that leaves you feeling windswept and breathless the way that only a studio ghibli movie can—except in an oddly sharp way that ripples with the unabashed parts of himself that miyazaki interlays within elements of this story.

  death and the dying process are taboos, neatly folded into the corners of dark drawers to be uncovered only when they must be.…

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  The Eight Mountains 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 May 2023 1

  reading other reviews has made me realize that i’m very quickly becoming passionate about this movie. it’s such a tender and soft visualization on (male) friendship that i’m not exposed to enough. 

  it’s interesting to see how many reviews claim that they would’ve enjoyed it more/think it would’ve been better if pietro and bruno kissed. frankly i’m irked—i feel that this movie beckons us viewers to rethink (and to be very blunt, decolonialize, de-mysogynize) what we expect straight male friendships to…