Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 28 Mar 2025

  Often feels like two completely different films doing different things (fitting!). I liked the more slow-paced one about a guy who’s fallen into a kind of absurdist, desperate situation and is trying to navigate how to maintain his sense of self against the backdrop of a society which largely doesn’t care about him beyond his ability to be exploited. I didn’t much like the one that felt like an even more heavy-handed Starship Troopers mixed with Avatar, all taken at…

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  In Bruges 2008

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 11 Mar 2025

  Felt much more brisk and a bit more dated than the first watch but it remains a banger. They really had $15 mil, a medieval Belgian city, and a dream (sequence)

Popular reviews

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  Mee Christmas 2000

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 May 2023 3

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  Edit: Since RLM decided to cover it and this page isn’t my partner and I’s inside joke anymore, I figure I should add to this. I think all of us who love bad movies have the one special stinker that is our pet film we love to hate. I adopted this one the way most people assume shared ownership of a pet when moving in with someone: my partner had found this on VHS at the Philly Italian Market…

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  Dicks: The Musical 2023

  ½ Watched 22 Oct 2023 3

  imagine a particularly bad shane dawson sketch but everyone involved is convinced that they are creating a campy cult classic for the ages. a narcissistic, neoliberal, tedious, pointless waste with little to redeem it. it’s like they asked randy rainbow to write a musical advocating for gay people to have fewer rights. i could spend hours delving into how repulsive this was but i refuse to let it occupy any more of my time. thanks to my dear friend adriana for suffering through with me then listening to me bitch about it on the subway the entire way home

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