Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  20 Days in Mariupol 2023

  Watched 07 Mar 2025

  The most gut-wrenching thing I have ever watched. Impossible to “rate” this imo.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  Bong Joon Ho can do no wrong. This cast absolutely understood the assignment. Robert Pattinson is the most underrated actor of the century. I laughed the whole movie. 

  Though I truly loved this film, its obnoxious tone resulted in the stakes never feeling quite high enough for me to be on the edge of my seat. Don’t get me wrong, I adore the humor in Bong’s films, but the balance definitely leaned more comedy than any of his previous works, and I’m not sure it paid off for me…

  Star rating breakdown:
  
Story/script: .5
  Casting/acting: 1
  
Cinematography/editing: 1
  Production/costume/hair & makeup: 1
  Score/music/sound: .5

Popular reviews

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  Magpie 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Oct 2024 1

  DAISY RIDLEY AND TOM BATEMAN IN ATTENDANCE AT MY SCREENING TONIGHT!!! (Twin Cities Film Fest). I’d be lying if I said that fact didn’t affect my rating. It’s just impossible not to feel hyped up by a piece of art when the artists who created it are there. The passion is palpable, and it certainly helped that this film was genuinely so good.

  When asked why the film was titled Magpie during the Q&A, Daisy talked about the superstition surrounding…

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  Beau Is Afraid 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Apr 2023 1

  I’m a weirdo. Sue me.

  The first act of this film is incredible and I was honestly mouth agape until the animated sequence (which was beautiful, but didn’t feel super necessary). People keep using the terms “fever dream” and “nightmarish,” but honestly this is what it feels like to live with anxiety - to constantly picture the worst possible scenario at every waking moment - only in Beau’s case it actually happens. 

  The pacing suffers a bit and the absurdity…