Favorite films

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  Section 1 2022

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 27 Mar 2025

  pretty much the perfect intro to the jon bois and alex rubenstein cinematic universe. self-contained, under an hour, and chock full of everything that makes the bois oeuvre so compelling: carefully curated public domain smooth jazz, immaculately cherry-picked charts and graphs to empirically prove sports-related points, collages of newspaper clippings, google earth as a canvas, and most importantly a focus on human beings and how imperfect and crazy and noble and heroic they can be, sometimes without trying and sometimes…

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  Matilda 1996

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Mar 2025

  i was born in 1992. i fully should have been aware of this movie when it came out. i have no clue how it didn't end up on my radar. it would have altered the trajectory of my young and impressionable life. i would have been introduced to another young kid who gets lost in books and is capable of complicated mental math and has to go to a comically punitive private school. i think the key difference between us…

Popular reviews

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  Love Live! The School Idol Movie 2015

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 04 Mar 2020

  i refuse to give my girls anything less than five stars.

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  Holes 2003

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 25 Feb 2025

  a truly perfect storm. the writer of one of the most beloved children's books of the modern era agreeing to adapt it to screen himself. a group of kid actors with insane chemistry that bursts from the screen. sigourney weaver as the villain in a kids movie. eartha kitt chomping a pipe and casually cursing families for generations.

  this movie treats linear time as a suggestion rather than a law and is better for it. it effortlessly hops between timelines…