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Favorite films

  • Vertigo
  • 8½
  • All That Jazz
  • The Awful Truth

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  • The Brutalist

    ★★★½

  • Queer

    ★★★

  • Chinatown

    ★★★★★

  • Woyzeck

    ★★½

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★½

    The epilogue really knocks this down a notch for me - bizarre choice. Part 1 is entirely lovely though, I am still hearing the score, and if you’re not going to fully stick the landing, you might as well do it in VistaVision.

  • Queer

    Queer

    ★★★

    I thoroughly enjoyed the last 30 or so minutes of this (though it could have ended 16 times and have the same effect). But it’s hard to stay with a film this long with so little to give with dialogue, and I don’t think it pulls it off fully. The skin dance was great. The soundtrack was questionable (no more nirvana covers in 2025 please).

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  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    ½

    Good god. A random character with Down syndrome hides under rubble for two hours until the end of the movie, gets up, looks around, and then gets crushed by a wave of rainbow-colored snakes. Utterly deranged. It’s awesome. Don’t watch it.

  • Poor Things

    Poor Things

    ★★★★★

    Mark Ruffalo fart noise