Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Woman in the Yard 2025

  ★½ Watched 29 Mar 2025

  This is like if M. Night Shyamalan was a misanthrope. A high-concept, stylish little thriller full of showy camera movements, entirely missing Shyamalan’s playfulness and his fundamental, unshakable optimism in the human condition. Instead, this is relentlessly bleak in a way I did not particularly enjoy, and the final act is borderline incoherent.

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  The Ballad of Wallis Island 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  Incredibly charming! It’s tightly written and quite funny, but there’s a real beating-heart emotional core, too. Tim Key is particularly excellent… a nuanced, adorable, funny, poignant performance.

  And Carey Mulligan! So warm.

  Followed by a Q&A with writers/stars Tim Key and Tom Basden, and director James Griffith

Popular reviews

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  Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog 2008

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 28 Mar 2012 3

  I truly believe this is a perfect piece of entertainment.

  
  Edit: I was a different person ten years ago, but, leaving for posterity. 

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  Papi Chulo 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Jun 2019

  To get it out of the way at the top: yes, this is a movie about a self-absorbed white gay man unloading all of his emotional labor onto a straight POC who doesn't sign up for that. It's uncomfortable and cringey and occasionally very hard to watch.

  But, again, it's about that. It wants you to feel the weight of how uncomfortable and inappropriate and one-sided this "friendship" is, in all its many dimensions. Ernesto is straight; Sean is gay.…