Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Former Cult Member Hears Music for the First Time 2020

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  "creating a platform for marginalized people" lol

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  Alien 1979

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Mar 2025

  Without a doubt, one of the all-time greatest sensory cinematic experiences. Every frame of this film could be put up in MoMA. Pauline Kael was off her fucking rocker.

Popular reviews

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  Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Feb 2022 1

  teared up the whole damn time

  Only critique, and a surprising one from me (I love concision): this should’ve been at least twice as long. Maybe an ep for each speech? And world-class actors should’ve read all of the speeches in their entirety.

  Douglass’s hypnotically, dizzyingly intricate flights of language demand more than a highlight reel—as marvelous and gut-wrenching as the highlight reel might be. Take us back to 19th century oratory, full-stop, and teach our attention spans to see and hear anew.

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  Silence 2016

  ★★★★ Rewatched 06 Feb 2022 3

  Hello Jesus my old friend
  I’ve come to die for you again 
  But the cicadas they are chirping 
  And the Inquisitor is laughing
  And the God-man who I thought that I could become 
  He seems so numb 
  It is the sound… of