Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Cam 2018

  ★★★ Watched 08 Jan 2025

  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.

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  Mysterious Skin 2004

  Watched 08 Mar 2025

  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.

Popular reviews

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 May 2024

  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…

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  The Vourdalak 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Jan 2025 2

  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…