Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Torment 1944

  ★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  This one is weird. The morality, the class construct, the blatant disregard for life and emotion. I get that society was less in touch with feelings then but everyone seems to understand this guy lost someone close to him and no one thinks they should check on him? And I'm not going to talk about the portrayal of Bertha, because that's just mysogeny. I liked the opening sequence particularly in the way it built the school as a cinematic space. But it kind of went downhill from there.

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  The Hours 2002

  ★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  As part of one of those days that are filled with synchronicity, I started the day listening to a podcast about a Scottish singer with a clear tendency for literary floweryness in his most mundane commentary. Which felt like something the script tried to force into existance a few times, and I guess if one of your characters is Virginia Woolf that's the setup, but I digress. I hated all of the modern stuff. It lacked a grounding that made…

Popular reviews

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  Hold Your Breath 2024

  ★★ Watched 12 Sep 2024

  One could very easily make a joke about this being a horror picture about being OCD in a dusty town, but that's not really it, because somehow the trauma inform hypochondrism is just varnish on great depression politics of homelessness and crime. All jokes aside, this felt underwritten and cliché. The acting is good though a bit obvious and the score is overblown to the point of comedy. The best part of it was Sarah Paulson's outfit at the Q&A.

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  Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1984

  ★ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  This movie is so bad! I can't understand how it got made. Indiana Jones continues to be an extremely questionable human being with no respect for research ethics. The only real thing that worked for me was cinematography, everything else felt offensive.