Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  The Zone of Interest 2023

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 14 Mar 2024

  "he's a busy bee, you know"

  illusive green spaces and elusive screen spaces. flowers blooming from ashen soil, art borne from the unspeakable.

  i think what sets this apart from other films of its kind is the fact that it doesn't just represent the holocaust -- it's a film explicitly about the act of representing the holocaust. it's all problematised in those sequences where glazer pulls us out into an abstract, overtly filmic space (be it through soundscape or montage,…

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  Lady Bird 2017

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 17 Dec 2022

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Recent reviews

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  Oh, Sun 1970

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  taut, percussive, full of anguish. you never quite know when the cuts are going to come, let alone where they're going to take you.

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  West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty 1979

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  the arc of imperialist history, denied by the arc of the tracking shot. it’s pretty magnificent.

Popular reviews

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  I Heard It Through the Grapevine 1982

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Dec 2023

  "i expect nothing from them... and everything from us"

  watched for dissertation.

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  Wonka 2023

  ★★★ Watched 15 Dec 2023 3

  feels like a huge oversight that none of the chocolate in this film looks even remotely edible, let alone delicious. also not amazing that the attempt at some sort of postcolonial reclamation narrative for the oompa loompas ends with it inadvertently looking as though they've voluntarily given themselves up to a life of perpetual enslavement.

  but other than that- a good time! sweet, heartwarming, shamelessly genuine- go in six shots deep and you'll be in tears by the end (NOT a personal anecdote).