Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Ice Princess 2005

  Watched 01 Mar 2025

  should’ve gone to zoey bloch

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  The Monkey 2025

  Watched 24 Feb 2025

  sometimes a movie is not “good” so much as watching it provides an avenue for working through a variety of semi-related thoughts. both are valuable.

Popular reviews

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  The Green Knight 2021

  ½ Watched 30 Jul 2021 9

  edit: i’ve contemplated deleting this review both because it annoys me to continually get notifications for it and because i’m pretty uncomfortable with how my most popular writing is always excoriations like this. i stand by most everything i said here but i don’t know if any of it is interesting or necessary enough to merit the kind of attention it’s getting, and i want to remain true to the reason i got on this website in the first place:…

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  The Trial of the Chicago 7 2020

  ½ Watched 16 Oct 2020 13

  did you know that abbie hoffman was an anarchist? because i don't think aaron sorkin does. throughout the over two hours of this movie never once is a word like "anarchist" ever uttered, or "marxist" or "socialist" or "communist" for that matter. when abbie hoffman takes the witness stand he declares that the institutions of the united states are good, but have been corrupted by those who do not wish to have justice seen. any anarchist or indeed anyone with…