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  Mickey 17 2025

  Watched 07 Mar 2025

  Love all the biopolitics in this, how it treats the human body as an ontological whole together with its outside system, a simultaneous producer, product and testing ground for authoritarian capitalism. Big fan of what Pattinson does here with his voice, a rightful successor to Tom Hardy's throne as king of weird voices, and his whole physical performance as well is nothing short of extraordinary. That's mostly the first half of it and it's great, and then you get to…

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  A Different Man 2024

  Watched 24 Nov 2024

  Man, how everything just rhymes with this one. It starts in a very simple manner, layered staging of actors and sounds back-dropped by this New York you can both see and feel as a constant stage of characters and pre-recorded noise, and the tale of a man trying to earn his living while battling his crippling insecurities regarding his facial deformities. And then it just swerves into this sort of surreal black comedy of affects and cursed desires. What struck…

Recent reviews

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  Strange Days 1995

  Watched 18 Mar 2025

  "Memories are meant to fade. They're designed that way for a reason."

  Brutality breeds nostalgia, so it almost feels fitting (and maybe inevitable) that a movie so ruthless and consistently unflinching (socially, politically, voyeuristically) ends up feedback looping upon itself, becoming a nostalgic object in and of itself. Simultaneously hopeful and repulsive, sometimes on the edge of becoming a total ideological trainwreck, and that's maybe what makes it a damn near masterpiece. Bigelow is probably one of the finest visual…

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  Lost Highway 1997

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  That camcorder tape of the murder might just be the nastiest thing Lynch has ever done. His nu-metal movie (complimentary). Can't believe I thought this was the most "okay" of his works, I need two baths after this.

Popular reviews

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  Annette 2021

  Watched 10 Jul 2021

  I really can't recall the last time I saw a film this actively antagonizing, where every itty bitty decision feels put together with a combination of an ironic smirk and a protruding middle finger, both pointed straight at the audience. Even all the way through to the marketing and the trailers, Annette is possibly the biggest rug pull of Carax's career -- and that is saying something. Apart from the opening scene, this really isn't the quirky Sparks musical I…

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 28 Apr 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.