Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

  Rewatched 14 Dec 2023

  Who up dawning their man?

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  Knives Out 2019

  Rewatched 15 Jan 2022

  Rewatched this because I felt sad and yup perfect movie I feel better now

Recent reviews

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  Teenagers from Outer Space 1959

  Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Lobster superimposed to simulate kaiju is actually awesome I don’t care how it looks.

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  Welcome to the Dollhouse 1995

  Rewatched 08 Mar 2025

  A cut I loved:
  When Dawn reads her dignity essay the class is disinterested and when she finishes she looks up. Instead of the expected reverse shot of the class reaction it cuts to the auditorium of students clapping for the “don’t talk to strangers” speaker. It’s a simple scene transition but the message is clear: Dawn’s bravery in reading an essay about grade grubbing in front of the class should be met with the entire school clapping for her. The craft of the film itself is kind and empathetic to Dawn, even when the characters that surround her never are.

Popular reviews

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  Blue Whales: Return of the Giants 2023

  Watched 28 Feb 2024

  I totally see what James Cameron was going for with Avatar 2 now.

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  Girls Will Be Girls 2024

  Rewatched 13 Sep 2024

  When her boarding school announces that for the first time the head prefect will be a girl, all of Mira’s classmates already know it’s going to be her. The opening moments of Shuchi Talati’s film concern themselves with Mira (Preeti Panigrahi) breaking a new boundary for girls, but the rest of the film will follow her as she breaks the boundaries that generations before her also broke.
  Those boundaries involve the new boy at school, Sri (Kesav Binoy Kiron). The…