Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  Watched 13 Mar 2025

  There is a familiar line of criticism that film nerds will, lovingly, level at the post-"retirement" work of Steven Soderbergh. That the man who beat himself to win Best Director became such an expert at making movies, he had to start coming up with ways to tie an arm around his back in order to keep it interesting. That his later work is still thrillingly crafted but can feel rushed or underdeveloped. I say "lovingly" because so far as I…

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  The Master 2012

  Rewatched 12 Mar 2025

  I used to be a real piece of shit. Slicked back hair, sloppy steaks at Pyloon’s, humping sand castle ladies, drinking jet fuel. You would NOT have liked me back then.

Popular reviews

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  Resurrection 2022

  Watched 22 Jan 2022 1

  *sickos yes ha ha yes! meme*

  a movie that understands that the essence of Cronenberg is half body horror and half seemingly terrestrial cityside domestic drama that actually reveals itself to be set in hell.

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  Megalopolis 2024

  Watched 02 Oct 2024

  Incoherent. Often cheap looking and ugly. Deeply misogynistic. Narratively stagnant. Emotionally anchored around a love story that doesn’t work and is easily the worst part of the movie. Plagued with a lack of self-awareness.

  And yet… 

  Look, I can tell you this thing has moments of pure cinema that are electric and inventive and unlike anything else I’ve seen before. That for every actor that is adrift, there’s another who is beyond committed and going full tilt. That the retro bizarro…

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