Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Amazing Spider-Man 2 2014

  Watched 30 Dec 2021

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

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  Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021

  Watched 01 Jan 2022

  Okay loved. Andrew was polishing his Tony award up there. Willem (has Italian citizenship??) was giving Dafoe and dafriend. Zendaya always. Holland’s gone corporate, but I’m not crying over that. He knows his lane. I find Cumberbatch less and less appealing through the years, and the plot of this movie (and the ever expanding MCU) feels like it’s trying to do Into the Spiderverse but just…worse? As a longtime Marvel fan I’m finally learning that more isn’t always better. Alas.…

Popular reviews

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  Born in Flames 1983

  Watched 15 Sep 2021

  I LOVE A RADICAL QUEER MOVIE. Lizzie Borden is a model for white directors critiquing white womanhood without excessive virtue signaling. I love the way this movie works with plot too—it has a clear one, but its focus on character collage is what immerses us in the world, not the cause/effect trudge that genre and genre-adjacent movies are expected to have now. Community, collaboration, self-examination, queer affection, and a soundtrack that doesn’t quit? Sign me up again and again.

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  Pig 2021

  Watched 15 Aug 2021 1

  I love a tight little 90 minute anti-revenge thriller. The PNW ASMR and gentle rhythm never seem indulgent because the plot moves efficiently. I love the harsh cuts and strange focus more than the seemingly arbitrary ultra-shakey cam, but I thought the filmmaking and acting lent this tidy script a lot of heart. My two critiques are this movie is about the Dead Wife Boys and steals a plot device from Ratatouille. But in the end, it made me hungry, not for pork! :,)