Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Songs from the Second Floor 2000

  Watched 09 Mar 2025

  Filmmaking hack: if you simply put it in the perfect, funniest position for every shot, you never have to move the camera!

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  Holy Motors 2012

  Watched 02 Mar 2025

  Denis Lavant is so great. Unexpectedly but also maybe expectedly resonant with all the early French avant-garde stuff I’ve been watching today! If only Man Ray and Fernand Leger chad Laval and Kylie Minogue

Popular reviews

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  My Neighbours 1971

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Mar 2021

  The person arguing that fighting for better housing rights for immigrants is a fight for better living for all people is a lost revolutionary and I need to know more about him and this whole struggle

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 31 Jul 2023

  Lots of jokes about the ‘Oppie’ nickname but I was fascinated by how it was presented as an erasure of his Jewishness by American characters, a cutesy, none-more-American designation at moments when he is ambivalently, uncomfortably welcomed into the fold of jingoistic, conservative, and genocidal Americanism. A masterstroke!! 

  I still can’t entirely parse the film’s politics - at times, I felt like it was too hagiographic; at others, like it rightly disdained Oppenheimer even as it acknowledged and explored his…