Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The New Year That Never Came 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Feb 2025

  Life is an absurd nightmare when crumbling infrastructure thwarts your suicide attempt. Late-stage socialism in its death throes.

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  Close-Up 1990

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Feb 2025

  Cinema is the art of imitation and sometimes life is as well. Abbas Kiarostami just gets that. Never seen anything quite like this — exquisite.

  Also, that final frame is one of the reasons I watch films.

Popular reviews

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Aug 2024

  MIFF 2024
  Cinematic insanity. The final evolution of LA sleaze, influencer culture, and America's insatiable appetite for fame.

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  Dead Man 1995

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Jan 2025

  That weapon will replace your tongue. You will learn to speak through it. And your poetry will now be written in blood.

  A John Ford and Alejandro Jodorowsky collaboration with Cormac McCarthy and Fyodor Dostoevsky as chief scriptwriters and William Faulkner as lead consultant. Seriously though, what the fuck did I just watch. Dead Man is mythic, haunting, hypnotic, and deranged. A mythological journey that straddles the Western and Native American tradition into doomscapes; bloody lands of apocalyptic violence, moral…