Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Damned 1969

  ★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Never sunk its teeth into me. Thoroughly boring, but beautiful to look at, at times. 
  Requires a certain familiarity with early Nazi history that I have no desire of obtaining. My dad loved something about its hopeless mellow dramatic stabs at sorrow, the more I think about it, the less I agree.

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  Cried twice once more for different times in different places. 
  An extra element of earnestness in viewing this at home with pops as opposed to seeing big Tim on the silver screen in theaters — interesting.

  P.S. heavily recommend getting very stoned and doing a double feature with Playboi Carti’s Rolling Loud performance. Tickled something in my brain, dilated my third eye.

Popular reviews

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  Licorice Pizza 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 30 Nov 2021 1

  It’s the morning after seeing this, I’m drinking my first cup of coffee, sitting in my living room, listening to the birds outside. And life is better. 

  “But what is it about?! Where’s the catharsis? What’s the plot?” Are the imbecilic questions someone who wants to ruin my fun may ask. Here are my answers: It’s about seeing the potential in someone you love and realizing the best versions of yourselves (separate and together) through them. The whole movie is…

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  The French Dispatch 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Oct 2021

  Yep. 
  Wes has climbed to the pinnacle of Anderson mountain with this one.
  5 stories, 5 million characters, 3 aspect ratios, 2 colors, 2 languages, voiceover, tableau vivant, animation, perfect composition, perfect score, perfect costumes, perfect lighting all packed up and pressed and creased and gift wrapped into 103 minutes. 
  An ode to intellectualism and also an authentic unapologetic satire. Sure there are tropes galore but that’s kind of a given. Also you get a fucking magazine with your ticket,…

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