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Favorite films

  • Interstellar
  • Knife in the Water
  • Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
  • The Last Picture Show

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  • Everybody Wants Some!!

    ★★★★

  • Bāhubali: The Beginning

    ★★★½

  • Risky Business

    ★★★★½

  • Runaway

    ★★★★★

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  • I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    Astoundingly uncompelling and incompetent. A movie made by and for losers.

  • Unforgiven

    Unforgiven

    ‘According to Boehm’s “execution hypothesis,” communally approved killings of group members emerged in the Pleistocene as a cultural adaptation for suppressing domineering bullies and norm violators. Killings were facilitated by the evolution of shared intentionality, and possibly by weapons. The evolution of a reduced propensity for reactive aggressiveness followed as an incidental genetic consequence.
    In support of the execution hypothesis, traditionally capital punishment appears to have been a cultural universal, which suggests that it was adopted before the dispersal of…

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  • Hundreds of Beavers

    Hundreds of Beavers

    ★★★★½

    This has to be the funniest and most creative comedy in what, a decade?

    Reminds me of that Pete Holmes bit: you can try and write the cleverest joke in the world, but it will never make someone laugh harder than seeing their dad step on a rake and smack himself in the head.

  • The Apartment

    The Apartment

    ★★★★½

    Yeah yeah ok it’s a perfect movie (only quibble is that the pacing is a bit too slow after Fran’s incident).

    This has to be the absolutely peak of writing a miscommunication-driven plot, so many layers and great touches. Very funny and beautifully shot as well.

    Wilder GOAT?