Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Feb 2025

  Great stuff

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  Stalker 1979

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 12 Feb 2025

  Just checking, still a masterpiece

Popular reviews

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  American Fiction 2023

  ★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2024

  One of the funnier movies I’ve seen in a while, and very very well acted. Jeffrey Wright looked effortless out there, and Sterling K. Brown was so good switching between some of the saddest and funniest moments of the film

  The RBG posters in the publisher’s office were a nice touch

  So, I read a scathing criticism of this film before watching it and went into it with maybe unfairly low expectations. I’ve never read Erasure, and I don’t want…

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  ★★½ Watched 24 Sep 2024

  Mixed bag here

  I get the themes they were going for here, I think, about the tragedy of letting life pass you by without being decisive or accepting yourself (as queer?). Which is great, but think it could’ve been delivered better. It had a banger soundtrack and some really pretty visuals, and nailed some of the liminal-ness of suburbia. But the snail pace of the first half and the clunky dialogue that I didn’t feel the cast was able to…