Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Down with Love 2003

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  4.5

  villify me, shoot me with poisoned arrows, blind me with pepper spray— but i love when a movie has a smart and lovely female protagonist with a mildly hateful soul and a doubtful spirit 

  i actually can't stand talking about love or relationships and i disguise it all as a joke because i think people often misconstrue disappointment for desperation, and i'm too old to be like, idolizing romance in a movie or something, i'm not, but what happened…

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  Novocaine 2025

  Watched 13 Mar 2025

  unrated

  honestly would've never watched this on my own but it was cool as an early release showing. the action was fast-paced and pretty funny

  unfortunately the actual story reads like it could've been conceived by a 13 year old boy who writes annoying comments on instagram reels— just very lackluster in that regard. tried to be deep with the "everybody hurts" and "we saved each other" thing but it was really just another guy-saves-the-girl film with no active or…

Popular reviews

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  Us 2019

  Watched 29 May 2023

  unrated
  
  i'm sorry, but i think this film is a mess

  the first quarter contains one of the most atmospheric and unsettling beginning scenes i've ever seen in a film, followed by some pretty good tension. but it immediately began to suffer by not giving a sincere examination of its own plot

  believe me, the story itself is magnificent and unique, but if you can't give it proper treatment, you have a deep idea with shallow execution. the "you just…

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  Nosferatu 1922

  Watched 04 Dec 2024 5

  unrated

  beautiful use of shadows and music. nosferatu takes high inspiration from gothic literature as a whole. for a film this outdated, it remains impressive to the end

  something tells me a level of characterization is missing from the original novel, though. there are themes within ellen that i think are unexplored; maybe a woman's obligation to sacrifice becomes a temptation. i have high hopes for a future rendition! a sequel untethered to time is much needed

  i will say that…