Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Here 2024

  ★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Hideous, detatched, condescending, cloying, but hard to look away from.

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  A spy thriller so well conceived and excecuted you almost forget the whole takes place in like 3 different rooms and probably cost the budget of one frame of a James Bond movie to make. Incredibly compelling middle-brow entertainment the likes of which Soderbergh can pull off in his sleep. It reeks of his sensibilities for better and worse, but it honestly just cooks and you should go see it.

Popular reviews

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  Tenet 2020

  ★★½ Watched 26 Aug 2020

  Somehow both hopelessly exposition-dense and incomprehensible at the same time. Tenet is the most Nolan-y Nolan film yet, a sci-fi spy thriller devoid of compelling characters or meaningful stakes. In a mostly plodding two and half hours of underexposed, generally muddy filmmaking, somehow very little is revealed or accomplished besides rehashing much of Nolan's typical pre-occupations including elaborate metaphors for filmmaking and artistic production, and a desire to put it all on the line for cherubic off-screen children.

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  Civil War 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 09 Apr 2024 1

  I honestly don't think that some attempt to Trump-ize the central conflict here would have worked. As some kind of cautionary tale about the creep towards authoritarianism and empire, I think the film would be politically burdened and fail its loftier ambitions, though that's very clearly the film many wanted from this. The film we actually get is deeply invested in the question of its own neutrality, on whether the act of depiction implies a moral stance. By framing the…