Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Lady Bird 2017

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 03 Feb 2025

  “Lady Bird? Is that your given name?” 
  
  “I gave it to myself. It’s given to me, by me.”

  this movie delivers a pointed critique of the modern obsession with individualism and self-discovery like literally no movie, coming-of-age or not, has ever in the public discourse concerning individuality against our postmodern cultural backdrop. you don’t have to be a semiotician to see how, at every key juncture of your life, your attention is being directed in some particular form, one way…

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  Inside Out 2015

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Jun 2024 1

  u ever wonder if anyone from these studios thinks about the moral implications on a society’s normative framework to engage in this kind of dialectical approach to mainstream media production

Popular reviews

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  Judas and the Black Messiah 2021

  ½ Watched 04 Mar 2021

  green book for millennials/gen z. 

  i will say that it is interesting to see how the parasitic consumption brand continues to evolve in its pathology as it finds new ways to advance its moral laundering while establishing relatively innovative streams to manufacture relevance. it’s professional work that they somehow found a way to co-opt fred hampton’s aesthetic whilst never mentioning anything substantive about the complexities of his legacy, life, politics, etc; i mean, who even knew those things were mutually…

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  Safe 1995

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Apr 2021 1

  me, throughout the entirety of the film, reacting viscerally to how unsettling all of it was: 😰

  me, afterwards, watching todd haynes and julianne moore critically inquire about the untenability of economic expectations on modern independent cinema and the concept of immunity relative to our post-industrial, late capitalist landscape: 🤓

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