Favorite films

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  Taxidermia 2006

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025 1

  my type of flick!

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Very disappointing for a Bonghead such as myself. His first release since Parasite brought him to director super-stardom 6 years ago, so obv had very high hopes for this, but sad to say it’s mostly a miss.

  Seems like a decent setup, but then persistently refuses to go anywhere interesting, instead choosing to focus on trump impressions, Naussica ripoffs, frustrating character gags, and stakes that just don’t really feel as large as they should. It’s honestly kind of bewildering. How…

Popular reviews

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  Saltburn 2023

  ½ Watched 07 Jan 2024 1

  She should never be allowed to write another movie ever again this was absolutely awful. I cannot believe it’s even possible for such a beautiful film with such good actors to feel so frustratingly pointless and cringingly bad. Actually yes I can because it was such an absolute waste of resources and everyone’s time. I was annoyed the whole time and wanted to check the runtime at least 7 times throughout to see how much longer the shit show was…

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  PlayTime 1967

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 22 Feb 2022

  Best physical comedy movie I’ve seen
  I love this movie. It has no characters. The people are there but it’s about what they do not who they are. They are almost props, and it plays brilliantly with the theatric sensibility of Tati’s direction. With a camera prone to wide, lingering shots in restrained color palettes which pull back wide and adopt angles to emphasize structure and place, people become mere moving parts to the grander designs creates with the sets.…