Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mank 2020

  ★★★ Watched 19 May 2024

  my leg is shot
  i drink a lot
  orson wants me to
  crack
  the
  plot

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  Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 27 Jan 2025

  Hoskins is even funnier than I remember. Fleischer's extremes are a bit more grating, but when he reins in his performance just a LITTLE it's very effective. Good news: the reason I had nightmares about Judge Doom and "the dip" for years after I saw this as a kid was NOT "because I was a kid and also I got scared easily" but rather "because they are, conceptually and in execution, elementally terrifying."

Popular reviews

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  Terrifier 2 2022

  Watched 29 Dec 2023

  I just... cannot sanction the kind of filmmaking that is so baldly enthusiastic in treating human beings as little more than exploitable meat. I'm not going to bang on much longer about this, but horror as a genre is kind of sacred to me, and I have always felt that its conflation with gore pornography is as close as I've ever been to understanding how a deeply devout person feels about sacrilege. Those two things could not be more different.…

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  The Grandmaster 2013

  ★★★★★ Added

  I don't know what words could do this movie justice, and it feels wrong for me to speak for a movie that is so intensely quiet. Or not quiet, exactly -- patient. See the 130 minute cut.