Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Starve Acre 2023

  ★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Fine folk horror, yet somehow I feel like I (and lots of folks) have been duped into accepting the bare minimum for folk horror. In this essay I will...

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  I don't think there's anything surprising or revelatory here - not like Parasite - but damn these performances are a great time. Thoroughly entertained!

Popular reviews

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  MaXXXine 2024

  ★★★ Watched 05 Jul 2024

  Like the others, this has great style and some decent but unthrilling substance. The fame obsession stuff, here and in the trilogy in general, is pretty banal; I'm more interested in the preoccupation with experience thru mediation. Anyway, fun, good, not great.

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  Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2023

  I feel like there's probably some real dirt this documentary glossed over, but just such a satisfying watch. The old codger in me finds deep meaning in the scene where they can't find a no. 2 pencil in a modern publisher's office.