Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The World Will Tremble 2025

  Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Another layer of being a hard watch these days. Several moments, especially the quieter ones, felt like I was watching Sálo or Come and See which says a lot on its own.

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  The least consequential movie I’ve seen at least this year, but arguably ever? (Compliment) Fassbender? I hardly Fassknowher! No one’s using Pierce Brosnan the right amount these days and I’m sick of it!

Popular reviews

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  Seeking Mavis Beacon 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Sep 2024

  Not a horror movie, but a horror movie.
  Between this and I Saw the TV Glow, I think we’re seeing how analog horror isn’t fully (or really at all) realized in ~ooh, isn’t The Backrooms scary?~ but in how those early tech/internet aesthetics signal the genesis of an irreparable complexification of our understandings of individual selfhood and collective identity via the internet and the portals through which we would access it and eventually even become. Analog horror is enmeshment and,…

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  Anatomy of a Fall 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Nov 2023 1

  A guy with low self-esteem whose soul is being sucked away by a teaching job he hates but needs the revenue from, continually starts and drops projects, and feels like he’s lost his dream of writing Jesus Christ get the fuck out of here I’m going to bed.