Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Feels like half measures, slight. If we're gonna do cold we should go all in. For all of his own disparate tastes, at some level Soderbergh is essentially an old fashioned Hollywood type who does nothing better than making glamorous stars seem compelling. Theres a version of this movie that is off-puttingly precise and alienating, the Fincher version. There's also a fun, fully absorbing spy thriller that stars CATE FUCKING BLANCHETT and Michael Fassbender doing quadruple crosses or whatever. (The…

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  Chaos: The Manson Murders 2025

  ★★ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Well, I hope this funds Morris's next movie.

Popular reviews

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  We Were Hardly More Than Children 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Jun 2020

  "You have to lose a lot of blood for it to smell like that." God damn, Cecilia.

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  I've Been Afraid 2020

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 01 May 2021

  I don't know of anyone who blends trauma with whimsy in quite the same way that Cecilia Condit does.