Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Rifkin’s Festival 2020

  ★½ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  one of the purest portraits of boomer delusion; in its way, almost as harrowing as something like the father

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  Amadeus 1984

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  treads the line between archetypal and one-dimensional, albeit a dimension seductive in its altern bombast and simplicity, all of life reduced to twin flames—love and jealousy, genius and mediocrity, christs and antichrists. only, this is not life, itonyamovie

Popular reviews

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  Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2022

  ★ Watched 16 Dec 2022

  If I look up a show on Twitter and the results are basically just a bunch of people making porn of it rather than talking about it, it’s probably not a very good show.

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  State Legislature 2007

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Nov 2023

  An overwhelming feeling of despair came over me when—after a 30-minute discussion on a bill involving an expansion of the parameters of who would be allowed to speak in a public hearing regarding an Idaho dairy factory’s pollution (as it was, only those within a mile radius of the factory were permitted), a discussion in which, as it went on, the obvious merits of the bill became resoundingly clear—we learn that this was all preamble not to a vote on…