Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Moneyball 2011

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025 1

  i’ve come up with a mathematical model that’s going to change the way movies are made forever: brad pitt smoldering and looking pensively into the distance = good movie.

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  Eraserhead 1977

  Watched 12 Mar 2025 2

  as a devout rite of spring lover, i understand the appeal of being drenched in a visceral nightmare. i understand why people love this. the sound and visuals are suffocating. that being said, i did not like eraserhead very much.

Popular reviews

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  The Wind Rises 2013

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Feb 2025

  Miyazaki has a talent for depicting the beauty of the creative process like no one else. The steadfast conviction with which Jiro loves aviation comes straight from miyazaki’s own love of his art. Even in all the sadness of the world there is so so much beauty. I cried.

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  Chernobyl 2019

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 09 Nov 2024 3

  My dad, who has two masters degrees in eastern european studies, has enough knowledge of the civil war to be a tour guide at any battlefield, and is generally a massive history nerd, maintains that no matter how much we learn, we can never reach the level of understanding attained by experience. Whether it’s the great depression, the beaches of normandy, the cold war, or covid, the only people who will truly know these things are those who lived them.…