Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Saturday Fiction 2019

  ★★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Another decidedly convoluted, delightfully sleepy, arthouse picture from Lou Ye. Absolutely continues down the style of Suzhou River but clearly has more resources to amp up the pastiche.

  I really love the choices Lou Ye makes because I absolutely do not understand them. I always feel like I’m a step behind what he’s trying to communicate but it happens so regularly when watching his films that I think that’s the desired effect. His storytelling is human and deeply emotional and…

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  Tommy 1975

  Watched 07 Mar 2025

  Ken Russell is the straight John Waters. 
  Exhausting, but remarkable.
  Insane filmmaking.
  Can’t believe this exists and Ann-Margaret wow!

Popular reviews

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  Holiday in the Vineyards 2023

  ½ Watched 17 Dec 2023

  Pretty sure this was written by ChatGPT.

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Feb 2024

  This is what I wish Tim Burton movies were!

  Really fun and high level performances from Stone and Ruffalo. Superb costuming and set design. I feel like Yorgos has finally alchemized some of the distasteful aspects of his recent movies into a really watchable bizarro format. Very cool to see it all come together so nicely.

  Does this thing that I love so much by having a character loosely represent consciousness. It’s far more heavy handed than Paris Texas or maybe even Kajillionaire, but it fits in that same subset of movie I think. 

  Pair with Multiplicity for a dark look at masculinity.