Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 09 Mar 2025

  This movie is a psychological drama, a greek tragedy, a dark comedy, body horror Cronenberg x Tsukamoto style, there is a little bit of The Shining, The Truman Show, Sunset Boulevard, The Elephant Man, it is loud, it is brash, it is also intimate and tender, but most of all it is a big fuck you. It is the movie Barbie didn't dare to be, the movie I didn't know I needed. Feminist body horror seems the most blatantly obvious…

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  Monster 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Feb 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Recent reviews

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  Studio 54 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Breathing life and narcissism in equal measure.

  Forget Roy Cohn in Angels in America, Al Pacino playing Steve Rubell would've been everything.

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  The Contractor 2007

  ★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Very watchable.
  Wesley Snipes & Eliza Bennett are both great and have real chemistry which centers the movie.
  Great electronic score by Nicholas Pike.
  C'mon don't be too hard on it, this isn't Shakespeare, and it doesn't want to be. It is fine for what it is.

Popular reviews

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  The King of Pigs 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Jun 2022

  One of the best things I have seen in quite some time.
  Raw, devastating, complex, beautiful, unflinching, a masterpiece.

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  Freud: The Secret Passion 1962

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Jul 2022

  An astonishing undertaking: a film about the development of ideas rather than biographical stations that is as suspenseful as a thriller. A whip-smart script (are there residues of Sartre in the finished product?), engaging performances by all the leads, experimental dream sequence cinematography and a great score.

  The unconscious, denial, dreams, transference, Freudian slips, talk therapy, symbolism, childhood sexuality, it's all there.

  The only thing I could have done without is the narration that bookends the film, done by Huston…