Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  can i say something controversial yet brave?

  i liked this, but i felt so distanced from ani up until the end. wish we could have explored some interiority much earlier, though maybe that’s the point? even so, in a movie titled anora, i wanted to queen out with anora. is that so wrong?

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  Kiki's Delivery Service 1989

  ★★★★ Rewatched 04 Mar 2025

  the bakery owners are one of my favorite depictions of a couple in media ever. my biggest me n who yet

Popular reviews

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Dec 2024

  i hope when i take the substance my other me gives me a pillow or something at least like damn 

  body horror as it relates to womanhood you will never not be fascinating! people saying the concept is “on the nose” or overplayed would be correct except we fetishize youth and western beauty now more than ever i think. when we get a handle on that we can stop making Substances

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Jan 2025

  the brutalist covers so much literal and figurative ground and corbet, much like tóth and the rec center, fraughtfully constructs and holds the narrative together. wait, also like the rec center’s numerous hallways, corbet touches on many political lines leading them into one big room where ideology is the center. you mean to tell me this was about creating art the whole time?? damn 

  corbet nailed so many details, and i believe most of the risks paid off by the…