Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Love & Mercy 2014

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  ive been a casual beach boys fan since about middle school so im very biased about this movie. i even did a biography essay in like 8th grade about brian wilson. finally got around to watching this.

  paul dano captures the eccentric genius of brian wilson so well, the scenes of him in the studio are so magnetic. the "God Only Knows" scene was giving the beach boy fan in me chills. john cusack, on the other hand, i wasnt…

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  Synecdoche, New York 2008

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 06 Mar 2025

  "What was once before you - an exciting, mysterious future - is now behind you. Lived; understood; disappointing. You realize you are not special. You have struggled into existence, and are now slipping silently out of it."
  
  the end is built into the beginning. 

  pretentious. self-indulgent. narcissistic. abstract. ambitious. messy. disjointed. confused. repressed. disgusting. depressing. unforgiving. forgotten. pathetic. heartbreaking. human. scared. dead.

  a warehouse inside of a warehouse inside of a warehouse in terms of densely packed themes and narratives…

Popular reviews

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  Mulholland Drive 2001

  ★★★★★ Watched 11 Feb 2025

  "You're in both dreams and you're scared."

  i wanna rewatch this movie 500 times and also never again.

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  The Penguin 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 11 Nov 2024

  i need battinson to break his no-kill rule just for penguin. just the once. i want that man gone