Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Spring Breakers 2012

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Opening with Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites was SO real…Moment 4 Life tease…Vanessa Hudgens/James Franco Everytime duet…the Lights needle drop !!!

  This movie vacillates between 1 star and 5 star moments, sometimes in the same scene, which makes me…love it? The film editing is phenomenal, all around great performances (Selena Gomez is SO good), and the aesthetic is lived-in and has an aura without veering into hacky. Unfortunately, it’s threaded together with an ultimately pretty poor script. People smarter than me…

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  Opus 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  John Malkovich should never be unemployed. Juliette Lewis is magnetic. Cinematography goes so hard and the music does not disappoint.

  A satisfying ending that adds to the film’s themes and message without being hacky or overwrought? For a horror movie In 2025? We won

Popular reviews

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  Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Jan 2025

  Pulsating, alive, like falling asleep while studying on a full table of open books and newspapers while the radio plays, affecting, immediate, stylish, necessary

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  The Only Girl in the Orchestra 2023

  ★★½ Watched 08 Feb 2025

  Sweet, but a bit straightforward. Brings up some interesting topics, then quickly discards them. Could be a good double feature with Maria re: the tension in being known vs how much you give to an anonymous audience, but instead just lets these questions rest on the outskirts.

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