Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Bad Batch 2016

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  Ana Lily Amirpour's dystopian The Bad Batch is a great idea with a bad script. Shot beautifully, then edited with compete self-indulgence. It's great and clever and shitty and dumb at different intervals and sometimes simultaneously.

  Most of all it's utterly engrossing and the ending made me laugh a lot.

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  Ghost in the Shell 2017

  ★ Added

  Whitewashing is the least of your worries with a movie this boring.

  This is a drab grey puddle of a thing, and I'm pretty sure they gave all the actors the same directing cue: "if it feels like you're connecting to your character, reality or any form of emotional core, take a step back, pop a handful of Xanax and try again."

  I don't think I've ever seen so many fun practical effects wasted on such bullshit.

  2/10, time you won't get back.

Popular reviews

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  High Strung 2016

  ★½ Added

  Is there anything more infuriating than movie New York where scholarship kids live in huge fucking lofts as if that's a thing? This particular movie New York is actually Bucharest painted in with stock footage of the big apple: you can tell because the subway stations look nicer.

  Instead of actors they cast dancers, but instead of characters they wrote cartoons, so it all works out. The dancing is out of this world, by the way - just too bad they dressed it up in what probably should resemble a film.

  (but seriously, do watch the two main dance sequences on youtube because holy shit)

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  Weiner 2016

  ★★★★ Added

  I loved the documentary Weiner (2016) more than should probably be okay. It's a very long British Office episode, but with a lead who has done actual wrong.

  Oh, and don't think I didn't notice how Huma's docu arc ended in just endless onscreen eating. Her expressions scream "fuck this shit", and when Weiner asks to not film an exchange with her (the only time in the entire doc), it's almost life-affirming to know you're not him there and then.

  Weiner is the icky creeper's Don Quixote, and Sancho is having fucking none of it at the end.