Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Adolescence 2025

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  - Towering. Terrifying. Important.

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  Perfect Blue 1997

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  - Absolutely rules.

Popular reviews

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  Babylon 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 21 Feb 2023 2

  - Good lord. 
  - There’s just so much movie here. 
  - It feels like too much movie. 
  - But also not enough movie. 
  - This is the fully realized fever dream of a visionary director that’s gone from sensational indie film to critically and financially massive studio musical to misunderstood and underseen studio biopic. This works as a 3 hour rebuttal to Chazelle losing the Oscar for La La Land in the way he did followed by First Man’s relative…

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  Saturday Night 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Jan 2025

  - My exact kind of film, a one night odyssey behind a show I’ve been obsessed with for 25 years. I just wish it wasn’t so far up its own ass. 
  - All the Nicholas Braun stuff feels mean-spirited, with his portrayal of two different comedic geniuses devalued to “hey look isn’t this guy WeIrD?!”
  - Gabriel LaBelle continues to build a great resume, though I’m a bit worried that he’s played the same confident, smooth talking white guy in…

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