Favorite films

Recent reviews

• 

  Macbeth 2025

  ★★★ Watched 25 Feb 2025

  cast did a great job, really cool sound design and production design, but i think macbeth is just a really hard play to save. it lends itself way too easily to a very somber staging that then falls apart when forests start moving and children are from their mothers womb untimely ripped etc etc. to take it seriously or not to take it seriously? that is the question. lady macbeth has some absolutely insane language (the killing the baby speech?????…

• 

  The Room Next Door 2024

  ★★½ Watched 20 Jan 2025

  it was fine but sort of crazy to not feel a single emotion during a movie about dying of cancer

Popular reviews

• 

  Challengers 2024

  ★★½ Watched 31 May 2024

  i hate when i pirate and watch a movie purely so i can read people’s critical analysis thinkpieces on substack only to find that the thinkpieces are just pretentious but futile attempts to create meaning out of something that is actually profoundly empty and shockingly boring

• 

  Free Guy 2021

  ½ Watched 14 Sep 2021 1

  yet another installment in the latest series of 1) making 50% of movies into little more than unoriginal advertisements for video games, and 2) trying to make every single piece of content appealing to every single consumer at the expense of creativity and artistry and storytelling and bravery. it is very obvious that this movie began with a ton of guys sitting in a board room asking “how can we make money” instead of starting with a writer who really…

Following