Favorite films

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  Cosmopolis 2012

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Feels both prescient and extremely quaint in 2025.  The specter of capitalism is no longer just haunting, it’s now a class 5 full roaming vapor.

  Team Edward pulls off the final scene beautifully.

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  The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  I went in expecting something a bit more Andalusian Dog, and in the wake of Juliet of the Spirits the week before, it was a bit jarring.  But expectations aside it’s pretty great.  A bunch of awful people just want to have a dinner party.  The diplomatic bag gimmick is so good.

Popular reviews

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Jul 2023

  If this were a leaked rejected script, it would be legendary. But because it actually got produced at a time when studios are as risk adverse as possible, my cynical self can't help but look for phantom traces of pulled punches. Or worse yet--is this movie just a carefully calculated degree of subversive, agreed upon by lawyers and boardrooms and whatnot. Yikes, is this just a Comedy Central Roast of a movie? No, no, that's no way to think--you can't…

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  Juliet of the Spirits 1965

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  My parents had been recommending this to me for years and years and I wish I watched it sooner.  The way the surrealist imagery works in service to the plot as a psychological glance into Juliet, and in stark contrast with the 60s domesticity and mannered nature of everything else is so good—it sort of has the same vibe as a Magritte painting, like a train barreling out of a fireplace.

  This is another of those movies whose DNA is…