Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Citizen Ruth 1996

  ★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  I missed this movie in its initial theatrical run & have been wanting to see it ever since. Probably would've worked better at the time, but since Roe has fallen... It's fucking dark out there for people that might find themselves with an unwanted pregnancy & if a film attempts to equally poke fun at pro-choice & anti-abortion factions... Well, lets just say, one side is riper for satire than the other, which means the film has some awkward & head-scratching moments.

  That being…

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  24 Hours in the Life of a Clown 1946

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Montmartre. Twenty to midnight. Why not leave the fairgrounds for the circus?

  Maybe slight, but I love stuff like this. Tiny portrait of a a way of life. Melville having a laugh before becoming one of the finest filmmakers of his generation.

Popular reviews

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  Magnolia 1999

  ★★★ Rewatched 10 Mar 2025 2

  Q: When will we as a culture finally move beyond this crisis in masculinity, which has been going on for at least the last half century?

  A: Fuck if I know, pass the cocaine!

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★ Watched 19 Feb 2025 2

  Why have you killed these beautiful flowers?

  Ugh... Wanted to like this, hated the way it looked. Maybe if it had been in black & white, but... Why is everything so murky & impossible to see? Why stick to grayscale? Why do the kids these days hate Technicolor? Aside from the absence of color, why does some of this look so flat & digital? I hated much of the way it looked. That said: beautiful gowns for Ellen, great production design on the…