Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Honestly, after Snowpiercer and Parasite, I'll watch anything this man does. This movie isn't perfect, but it's riveting and weird and interesting and better than most movies.

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  Nickel Boys 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  Having read the book, as well as nonfiction about the Dozier School that inspired this novel, I was somehow still unprepared for the emotional resonance of this film.

  I've got a lot of thoughts that I don't know how to put into words yet.

Popular reviews

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  The Lighthouse 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 07 Nov 2019

  Somewhere out there, an internet algorithm has discovered that in the Venn diagram of all these things that this movie might be, I fit somewhere in the exact middle. My friend Tyler and I decided months ago that we would be seeing this, but I still saw ads for this every day on every social media platform and while browsing the internet.

  Maybe it's because I legitimately love real lighthouses? I've loved lighthouses since I was a kid, so I've…

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  Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood 2019

  ★★★ Watched 08 Aug 2019 1

  I am, in general, not a huge fan of Tarantino, but I wanted to see how he handled the story of Sharon Tate.

  I liked that the ending surprised me. I liked the soundtrack. I don't love that Tarantino seems to worship middled-aged white men who love to be violent towards women. And who also have a foot fetish.

  All in all, I'm just not sure how I feel about the movie as a whole.