Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  A real, genuine movie of the year contender dropping in March. What a world.

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  Nowhere Boy 2009

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Really admire how much this movie commits to its core thesis that John Lennon made the greatest music ever because he really, desperately wanted to fuck his mom.

Popular reviews

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  Emilia Pérez 2024

  ★½ Watched 10 Nov 2024 2

  Heard about this on the festival circuit and then heard the premise and was like “Well that can’t be right, that sounds stupid and exploitative and pretty bad” and I was mostly right but I didn’t anticipate how fucking boring it would be, too. 

  Lots of things wrong here, like how a movie set in Mexico City is somehow this bland and beige, but the but thing is why is this a musical? The songs barely exist, almost without melody,…

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 01 Feb 2025

  (Almost) every element of this makes me feel so alive. Already excited to see it again (most of it)

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