Favorite films

Recent reviews

• 

  Waking Life 2001

  Watched 20 Jan 2025

  Kinda makes u seasick but has its moments

• 

  Babygirl 2024

  Watched 26 Dec 2024

  The collective gasp in our theater when they skipped past the AMC ad to leave us edging in our seats…truly diabolical lol

Popular reviews

• 

  Yeast 2008

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Jan 2023

  Can’t tell you how gratifying it was to unpack this with Mary and Amy at the @mezzanine q&A… we had a ton of tension to resolve and got right to it. 

  Lol to male-run festivals turning this down bc it basically repulsed them to witness authentic female emotions in a platonic context 

  This severely unlikable bunch of annoying/compelling female protagonists clearly walked so Lena Dunham’s could run 

  Watching such shitty communicators embattled in conflict is incredibly frustrating lol

  It’s tempting…

• 

  American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy 1989

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 May 2022

  As an “FFB” “Off the D” containing multitudes of Jewish guilt, obligation and resulting personal boundaries, this film really spoke to me on a spiritual level I did not expect. 

  The opening credits kick off with reassurance that M’dor L’dor can hang by a thread and broken-telephone Mesorah doesn’t even have to be generational to occur— nonetheless, god hears whatever vestige of tradition remains. The precarious fragility of agnostic or atheist attitudes still count as active engagement with god, even…