Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Minority Report 2002

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Feb 2025

  It’s crazy to me that, despite being filmed before 9/11, this preempts the conversation America would be having with itself throughout all of the 00s. The struggle to ensure freedom through fascism and the supposed importance of preserving the illusion of it, consuming the ideal if it were ever even real. In the end Spielberg rejects it all. Staking everything on the now, he reduces the future to a succession of present moments, something that, even if predetermined, can only…

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  Knight of Cups 2015

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 25 Feb 2025

  See myself so much more in it so I can’t let myself still love it. Think it’s important for me not to, it’s meaning becomes more urgent, even if no direct action can bring me to the life I want. Malick understands the Tarot so intuitively, understands film like very few

  “He forgot he was a prince. He forgot about the pearl. He fell asleep”

Popular reviews

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  The Lobster 2015

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Jan 2022

  You know, I used to think that turning into a dog would have been pretty cool but after seeing what happened to Bob, I am seriously rethinking that.

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  Beau Is Afraid 2023

  ½ Watched 21 May 2023

  Obviously reaching catharsis through art is a messy and raw process but Aster mistakes insecurity for vulnerability, crafting one of the most truly pathetic movies I’ve ever seen. An elaborate misery circle jerk that allows him to be consumed by his cum as he sobs in the centre for all of us to see. The ego to think your self hatred and pity is compelling enough to make people watch three hours of it, fucking insane