Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  I'm Still Here 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Feb 2025

  unlike my recent 4-star ratings, this one is a true average of the 5-star moments (most of the film’s exposition) and the 3-star moments (the entire post-epilogue)

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Feb 2025

  for a movie this long, I was entertained. for a movie this pretty, I was annoyed by the dialogue for a number of the intimacy scenes. and for a movie featuring two stellar actors I first discovered when I started watching Real Movies in adolescence (Memento 🫶 and The Brothers Bloom 🤔), I loved seeing their relationship unfold……… and then crash and burn

Popular reviews

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  American Fiction 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Jan 2024

  if I’m drunk on the red label Johnnie Walker, so be it

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  The Girl with the Needle 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 03 Jan 2025

  I have not seen a crowd rush faster to the exit door than after this movie ended