Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mother 2009

  Rewatched 06 Jun 2020

  Was surprised on this revisit to find that this has Bong's best capital F Filmmaking to date. On the other hand the plot is comparatively thin and I still have no idea what to do with the, uhh, problematic elements in the son's performance. Good movie!

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  It Happened at the Inn 1943

  Watched 26 Mar 2020

  One might detect, perhaps, the hint of a metaphor when the characters are named as bluntly as 'Tonkin' and 'Emperor', but this is such a delightfully perverse film that it barrels past any overbearing message it's trying to get across and winds up a being a worthy leftfield addition to the realm of the whodunit flic.

  Gleefully upending any expectations or morals we might have expected to burden the plot, it carries itself like a Buñuel film and laces every tender note of family togetherness with bitter irony.

Popular reviews

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  Everybody’s Everything 2019

  ½ Watched 09 Mar 2020

  Comically terrible collection of fawning narcissists wax philosophic about how they took advantage of a manic boy wunderkind to his ultimate tragedy. Bonus meta-narrative of the filmmakers treating the material (aka this kid's life story) with the same artless, despicable, selfish, cash-grabbing moral vapidity that almost every person in Gus's life evinced. A miserable viewing experience.

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  Vantage Point 2008

  Watched 03 Dec 2019

  if rashomon was about obnoxious american tourists

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