Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  I didn't really understand what kind of movie this was until the mambo taxi showed up for a second time

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  All About My Mother 1999

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Feb 2025

  mileage will vary for people who see themselves here but it hits sooooo different for catholic gays

Popular reviews

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  The Brutalist 2024

  Watched 20 Oct 2024 3

  a generation of filmmakers who have absorbed the famous critical objections to Schindler's List now turn out a new variety of holocaust film, where the camps function as an empty center rather than an onscreen spectacle. but are we any closer to saying something true? Corbet cites Sebald as his favorite author, but he cribs Sebald's identification with the suffering Jewish subject without any of the melancholic distance of Sebald's narration, or the affect which that distance serves to present…

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  Cure 1997

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 Oct 2024

  made me feel powerless, enraged, and terrified. a film which manipulates the images of longed-for security — a noble cop, a wise doctor, a loving husband — until they morph into the bogeymen they're meant to repress. a good case against the possibility of understanding, healing or justice in modern life

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