Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  National Theatre Live: Vanya 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Andrew Scott is quite simply one of the most intricate theatrical actors I have ever seen. Not that I’ve seen a lot. But he sours above all.

  So curious that his Sonya is just as strong as his Astrov and his Yelena, if not stronger. And even more curious that his Vanya kind of blends into the background for so much of this (obviously not the latter 40 minutes).

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  Last Days 2005

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Feels like we’re a ghost following a corpse rambling around a haunted mansion.

Popular reviews

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Sep 2024

  You can’t tell me Sean Baker isn’t the American Chekhov. 

  In the Q&A, Mikey Madison suggested that one of the intimidating challenges of dancing is that its merit hinges directly on how deftly it conceals its difficulty. Her words undeniably speak to the form of this film. This is the work of a filmmaker at his most graceful and assured. In a way, it’s a strangely quiet and understated film — it doesn’t bother with mediating itself as a work…

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  National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Feb 2025

  Ironically both subtle and in your face with its queer campiness. In college, we read this as an existentialist comedy, but I really do feel like the double identity comedy trope does wonders in a queer context as well.