Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Thief 1981

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 12 Mar 2025

  It’s insane how much of Manns entire oeuvre is distilled into his first feature film. An all time great debut

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  The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Feb 2025

  The shot of her burning corpse silhouetted against the fire as the riot rages is just so incredible.

  Joan of Arc is dead, but the martyr lives forever

Popular reviews

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  Megalopolis 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Sep 2024

  Since watching this I have been haunted by the specter of Megalopolis. I can’t stop thinking about it, and any time I talk to someone about it I find myself in a defensive posture to their dismissals of it. So I guess I liked it?

  I am predisposed to saccharine swings of expensive and earnest auterism, but I will preface this defense by saying I didn’t like “One from the Heart”. I found it technically engaging but strictly lacking in…

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  The Killer 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Nov 2023

  Reznor and Ross popped off too hard for the majority of people to experience this on their fucking tv speakers or phones. Netflix’s Marketing department should be put on trial