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Favorite films

  • Southland Tales
  • Stalker
  • The Final Exit of the Disciples of Ascensia
  • Shrek Retold

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  • Cam

    ★★★

  • Mysterious Skin

  • Cunk on Life

    ★★★½

  • The X-Files

    ★★★

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  • Cam

    Cam

    ★★★

    My entry for this was discarded before I logged it and I never noticed. Overall an interesting concept and I didn't expect the direction it went, but it wasn't particularly effective for me.

  • Mysterious Skin

    Mysterious Skin

    Devastating... I don't feel like I can really give this a numeric rating, but this is one of a very few times a film has made me feel something that manifests physically in the same way as dread or panic—that specific kind of sinking overheated adrenaline-soaked discomfort that comes when your car slides on a frozen road. I'm still rattled.

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  • I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★★★

    I originally wrote a review that addressed the themes and content of this film more, but I think a lot of it is painfully clear to anyone who gets it, and I'm not sure it was really made for people who don't. It's a unique feeling to watch something I can resonate with so intensely and immediately, and to know that it will be entirely alien to many, but it feels important to have something like that. This movie gives…

  • The Vourdalak

    The Vourdalak

    ★★★★

    Wowwwwww this movie looks fantastic! There's a ton of great details in the costume design, cinematography, puppetry, et cetera that makes this really fun to look at. I'm a big fan of the way Gorcha's depiction as a puppet seems at times both diagetic and non-diagetic, and how even the human characters move like marionettes. I could honestly see this working really well as a stage production and I bet all the theater kids would have a blast with it…