Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★ Watched 17 Jan 2025

  Eh, 

  I’m kind of over movies that try too hard to make you feel ~emotions~

  
  - cue piano music during sad scene -

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  Problemista 2023

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 10 Jan 2025 1

  This was the most hilarious, touching and original thing I’ve seen in a while. Tilda Swinton is roaringly good, and Julio Torres? He’s like the new Nathan Fielder but of arthouse film.

  I will be keeping my eyes keenly peeled on anything new from this exciting writer, director and actor.

Popular reviews

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  Vengeance Is Mine 1984

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Jan 2023 2

  This surprised me. What I thought was going to be more of a one dimensional drama, actually turned out to be rather multi layered and meditative, with a great neurotic performance by Trish Van Devere. If one watched it in the background it could almost be written off as a soap opera, yet in the way that Lynch’s Mulholland Drive turns from the pedestrian to the surreal in the seeming blink of an eye — this also turns from the everyday humdrum of gossipy relationships to moments of brooding existentialism. Thanks to Arsenal Kino in Berlin for screening this.

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  Personal Shopper 2016

  ★★ Watched 13 Aug 2016

  The bulk of this film was an iPhone conversation between Kristin Stewart and 'unknown', possibly the most unintelligent and tedious message thread to ever exist.

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