Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Longlegs 2024

  ★★★ Rewatched 20 Mar 2025

  Entertaining pastiche of The Silence of the Lambs, Zodiac, and modern supernatural horror. Cage is creepy, but also never not hilarious, which perhaps undercuts the horror somewhat.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Another hilarious, visionary masterpiece from the brilliant Bong, with pointed red-hat politics and glittering hope for our new age.

Popular reviews

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  Manufacturing Dissent 2007

  ★★ Watched 21 Jun 2015

  A movie by pussies for pussies.

  By which I mean, anyone who watches Michael Moore's films and is SHOCKED to discover that

  1. he's an angry polemicist, not a journalist
  2. his filmmaking is sometimes unfair to its subjects
  3. he has manipulated facts in pursuit of a larger truth
  4. he has a bigger ego than his slob persona suggests
  5. his films have made him rich
  6. he is, in some ways, a morally compromised human being

  is…

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  DEVO 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Chris Smith’s incredible and hilarious and brilliant doc about the total geniuses that were DEVO. I really had no idea.

  Seen at the Boulder International Film Festival.