Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 1999

  ★★½ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  "master, what's a bongo?"

  well, it's very ambitious!
  what i really respect about the phantom menace is how it has a lot of very understandable instincts it plays off in terms of where it wants to take star wars - it's the 21st century, almost! the technology that goes into filmmaking has advanced such in the 15 years since return of the jedi that the industry is nearly unrecognisable! why not use that? bring back the godfather of the modern…

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  3 Women 1977

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  "you're the most perfect person i ever met."

  i honestly don't even know where to begin with this. i guess first of all it's a lot darker and scarier than i thought it would be going in. like i find with most dreams there's something terrifying about it that never quite reveals itself. it feels like every 15 minutes this takes on some narrative shift you didn't know was possible and becomes an entirely different movie. i'm certain david lynch watched this at some point and dedicated the rest of his creative life to it.

Popular reviews

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  First Reformed 2017

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 15 Feb 2024

  "i know that nothing can change and i know there is no hope."

  catholic guilt and extremist horror, the ultimate paul schrader movie. god or activism or sickness or love, it will not save or condemn you better or worse than you can do to yourself.

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  True Grit 2010

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  "you must pay for everything in this world, one way or another. there is nothing free but the grace of god."

  this was the last coen brothers film i hadn't watched yet, so naturally i held off from putting it on for over a year.
  am i impressed with it? does it live up to all the expectations i'd laid upon it as the last unseen film by two of my favourite filmmakers? yeah, obviously. it's fitting that when they…

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