Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Civilisation 1969

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  Quite possibly the best television ever made.

  Life changing.

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  Babygirl 2024

  ★★ Watched 17 Feb 2025

  This movie feels like it was made by a 27-29 year old. If the creators are not this age in actuality/chronologically, then they at least are that age emotionally and intellectually. Sometimes I might use this as a compliment; here, in a movie touching on big existential questions of meaning, growth and freedom with characters of a certain circumstance, I am saying this film is immature. I remember what it felt like to be that age—acutely. While my talents and vision…

Popular reviews

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Jan 2024

  “You’re in a dark period. You have to keep going.” 🥹

  The first half hour I was worried it was an esoteric, self-amused hipster “weird for the sake of weird” / look how cool our art direction is showoff game (self-congratulatory we-look-forward-to-seeing-our-Neo-Art-Deco-influence-in-your-personal-and-interiors-aesthetics-for-the-next-decade-now), but as it developed, slowly, all the molecules in my body started getting activated and reoriented, until I felt like reiki was getting done to me and I remembered the magic inside myself that has been and will…

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  Whiplash 2014

  ★★★ Watched 09 Apr 2023 5

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

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