Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Royal Tenenbaums 2001

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Pagoda carried this movie

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  Snow White 2025

  ★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Rachel Zegler is so great

  Unfortunately, they couldn’t even get a real deer

  Edit: I didn’t find Gal Gadot’s performance that unwatchable. Yea, when she sang it was pretty rough, but as a villain I found it very easy to hate her

Popular reviews

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  Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019

  Rewatched 28 Mar 2020

  It's hard for me not to compare this to Call Me By Your Name, both being personally moving and titular pieces of recent gay cinema. Having read some of Aciman's work recently, the love he writes plays out like a well thought-out chess match where every sentence has two meanings. As to CMBYN, I don't know if the chess of that love is as fully realised as it is with Portrait of a Lady on Fire. The lines and readings…

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  Dave Not Coming Back 2020

  Watched 27 Oct 2020

  AFF #2
  As a documentary, I honestly think this could have been made to be more entertaining. But, I believe the director had the respect of Dave in his mind at every creative decision. Death is not suppose to be entertaining, it just happens. Great film.