Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Nickel Boys 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Feb 2025

  When I read the book back in 2019, the narrative perspective trick didn’t work for me. It felt a little too contrived. This film takes what I thought was a weakness and turns it into a strength. This is a rare adaptation that is better than the book.

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  The Monkey 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Feb 2025

  This movie literally has Looney Tunes levels of violence and also wants to say something serious about generational trauma. It almost works.

Popular reviews

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  Rumours 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Oct 2024

  This feels more like Luis Bunuel and Yorgos Lanthimos than it does Guy Maddin, but it’s operating on a wavelength that totally tickles my brain. It’s so rare to sit in a theatre and laugh with people whose brains are weird in the same way yours is.

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  Megalopolis 2024

  Watched 29 Sep 2024

  I don’t know how to put a star rating on this thing. There’s hardly a moment in it that’s boring. I was thoroughly entertained, just at the sheer audacity of it. I laughed a lot, but it’s hard for me to tell if I was laughing at things that are intentionally funny. It’s philosophically muddled, but also very sincere about what it thinks it’s trying to say. It’s simultaneously one star and five stars.