Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Under the Silver Lake 2018

  ★★★ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  mixed bag for me. I liked the whole stonery mystery/conspiracy theory vibe in the urban setting. the American Weird is kind of irresistible to me and this gave me that hit. but it took me a long time to get on with Andrew Garfield's performance and I think he's too intense and energetic to pull off the stoner part of this character. there are also a lot of moments where it's so obvious that a dude made this movie. I…

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  the first Bong Joon-ho miss? I think maybe kinda sorta. I really wasn't into it at all for a while. there are way too many strands flapping around and most don't go anywhere. Robert Pattinson does well creating two distinct characters of the clones but I found him pretty irritating at first. once the film sticks to the story with the native creatures I think it's much much better and the final 45 minutes or so are good. but overall…

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  Civil War 2024

  ★★ Watched 19 Apr 2024

  sorry but this movie has absolutely nothing of substance to say about anything. vacuous while creating a traumatic war scenario that honestly I just found obnoxious and pointlessly abrasive. like, dude, I already know war is bad.

  what I assume Alex Garland wanted to do was look at journalism in war and more widely the public gaze on horrific things, to what extent we might need to be looking at these things, and the effect it has. and while he…

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  Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Oct 2022

  London film festival 2022, #13/15

  I expected to like this but wasn't as excited for it as I might have been for a new del Toro that was an original story. But goodness me, I was in love with every minute of this. It wears its anti-fascistness on its sleeve and to me feels like the definitive Pinocchio film. Visually it's stunning, it makes you fall in love with Pinocchio of course but also Gepetto in a way that I've…