Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 06 Mar 2025

  The GOAT. This movie and Everything Everywhere All At Once were the culmination of a decades worth of engorged meta-textual filmmaking, and we're still tying to figure out what comes next. Even the sequel can't quite keep it together nearly as well as this. Nothing has been as good as this movie in its genre(s), before or since.

  You want to know the real cultural impact of this movie? It looked a bunch of suburban white people in the eyes and said, "rap rules and you like it," and those white people were like, "shit, you're right!"

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  Body Double 1984

  ★★★★½ Watched 27 Feb 2025

  Maybe the true pornos were the women we stalked along the way.

Popular reviews

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ½ Watched 01 Jan 2025 1

  The One Baned in Japan
  Not Rewatching Christopher Nolan Filmography #10

  The moment when the Academy came to its senses and realized that its responsibility was to institutionally reward mid movies. Sadly, this isn't even mid; in true 'Topher fashion, it's both supremely reactionary and also probably pretty bad.

  Even for 'Topher, this shit surprised me. Making a film lauding one of the historic mofos who designed humanity-vaporizing technology, and without a single wisp of cinematic recognition for the hundreds…

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  Heat 1995

  ★★★ Watched 28 Jan 2025

  Just kiss already! GOD!

  This movie is for men, and only men (Michael Mann doesn't like women very much). Mostly it's for older men who fear life has somehow passed them by, who feel like domesticity and happiness in general just aren't for them. It's for men who achieved the American Dream, but cannot figure out what comes next. It's for men who lie awake at night next to their wife and fear their marriage is dead, devoid of the…