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Favorite films

  • No Country for Old Men
  • Manchester by the Sea
  • Dreams
  • Once Upon a Time in the West

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  • Butcher's Crossing

    ★★

  • Poor Things

    ★★★★

  • Three Colours: Red

    ★★★★★

  • Emily the Criminal

    ★★★½

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  • Butcher's Crossing

    Butcher's Crossing

    ★★

    this was a really bad movie. if you cut out from your evaluation of the film the source text—a really remarkable novel—there are no character motives. if you leave out from your consideration of the film the source text, there is no character development. no motives on the one hand, no development on the other. the film ends with a land acknowledgment, but it starts and stops with the novel, which it embarrasses. no one knows what is happening, least…

  • Poor Things

    Poor Things

    ★★★★

    stunning visuals and excellent performances all around (no surprises with that roster)

    I think it's telling that a movie can be this excessive in so many ways and no one leaves the theater surprised in 2024 - it has the richly saturated visuals of Barbie, for example, and its storytelling, about an engineered human being, mirrors the split-narrative of Oppenheimer, which itself was reflective of the nuclear processes portrayed in that movie. this is what we have come to expect…

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