Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Horse Girl 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Feb 2025

  will tavlin is out here on the radio waves throwing dirt on horse girl and trawling for netflix' embarrassment in the podcast tour for his pointy point lookie what i noticed surface observation piece written for N1, cuz he wants bad movies to be 'Breakdown'[97] again? so i think he sux. Long live horse girl, and tall girl is also a perfectly appropriate name for a movie about a girl growing tall what disrespect

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  Train Dreams 2025

  Watched 31 Jan 2025

  WooowWeee Train Dreams... I really really want to see this movie, but even more, and before i do, i really want to see Denis Johnson's name on these letterboxd credits...

Popular reviews

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  Huesera: The Bone Woman 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Jul 2023

  This film shows you everything and tells you nothing. It's absolutely haunting and brilliant. There were points i didn't know what I was getting, where I was being brought, and fighting for what I wondered or wanted was going on. But it is a chilling deep and alienating amulet of mystery

  The great statue in the ominous opening scene is The Virgin of Guadalupe (really standing outside Mexico City)... what is the terror there in that largening shot. I don't know but that was my springboard down the rabbithole of unlayering this exquisitely crafted almost confidently aloof first film.

  
  2023: RANKED | HORROR

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  The Black Phone 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Jul 2022 2

  A cool ass popcorn horror and grimy crime thriller that still holds you in the relatively comforting entertainment zone of a King-brand adaptation in a more refined key. The grounded brutality of children subjected to the harsh jungle of normal american life has rarely been done better. With animal strategy siblings Finney and Gwen navigate the threatening and abuse-ridden spheres of home and school while the wider world holds only the lurking menace of The Grabber, a boogeyman closing in…