Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Alice 1988

  Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Watch this space as even as I speak I am developing my post about how this is actually about Marxist-Leninism and the glory of the dialectic.

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  Winter Kept Us Warm 1965

  Watched 20 Mar 2025

  A sensitively observed movie from the 60s (!) about two University of Toronto students in a delicate, painful, and suppressed gay romance, mixing the Englishy robes-and-caps atmosphere of midcentury high academia with some of the jangly and hip youth culture of the decade. Not just great as a student film, or great for its time—great as a film, point blank.

Popular reviews

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  The Scary of Sixty-First 2021

  ★★★ Watched 25 Jun 2021

  NYC art hoes do a giallo riff, with an updated vocabulary that includes words like "cucked" and "redpilled." Even when they're screaming about evil pedophile spirits everyone here is keyed in at about 75% of the necessary energy and the plot gets real janky as it goes on. But some of the dialogue is funny and nails a certain kind of Extremely Online-speak, the atmosphere is mostly well-handled, and few movies nowadays dare to be so stylish and mannered. I liked it pretty well.

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  Arthur's Perfect Christmas 2000

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Dec 2020

  Arthur Read is the Michael Douglas of children's television, an impatient, beleaguered Everyman. He is harassed on all sides by bullies, family obligations, bad luck, his conscience, and aside from being a bookworm, his major personality traits are getting irritable or comically anxious. I love him as I love myself.

  Also: Muffy high-key antisemitic here???