Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Wild at Heart 1990

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Feb 2025

  kind of a sloppy mess but worth it just for laura dern’s outfits and antics.

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  Blue Velvet 1986

  Rewatched 19 Jan 2025

  i think lynch may be too optimistic for me!!

Popular reviews

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  First Cow 2019

  Watched 22 Feb 2020

  only had to wait nearly 4 hours in an unmoving line—where there was zero guarantee of there still being tickets—to get a same day ticket to this premiere at Berlinale. worth it just for the experience of walking down the red carpet in my birkenstocks (because i didn’t know all ticket holders got to walk down the red carpet and i was severely underdressed).

  anyways. delightful, bittersweet, gently hilarious, every shot tenderly composed. “misfits of the american west“ is my…

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  Thoroughbreds 2017

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Mar 2018

  I may be biased because it's repeatedly referenced that Anya Taylor-Joy's character dropped out of the same prep school that I left (albeit for different reasons), and it's always fun to hear something you are familiar with mentioned in a movie.

  Anyways I loved this a lot. The performances are great and the direction is really strong. It asks various questions about the value of empathy: if it's necessary to be a good person, or even a good friend.