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Favorite films

  • In a Year with 13 Moons
  • Heat
  • Bad Lieutenant
  • Morvern Callar

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  • Out of Sight

    ★★★½

  • Gimme Shelter

    ★★★★★

  • Jackie Brown

    ★★★★½

  • Full Metal Jacket

    ★★★★½

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  • Chaos: The Manson Murders

    Chaos: The Manson Murders

    ★★★★

    Feels evil! The book is a masterpiece and at times a romp (a vest made of pubic hair for example, becomes a moment in the book where some dots connect) and this is not that, so don't waste your energy being mad that this is not the book. In one way, it's Morris playing the role of a skeptic and also entering the "Chaos" version of events into the official record on Manson. I like how it feels like a Zaslov-era true crime thing that is slowly infected by this scary, meaner, documentary.

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★

    Really disappointed with this! A movie with its own obedient logic but that hardly matters when the guy making all the rules has his head up his ass! Inexplicable, cut scene-style camera movements; every scene rumbles along like a song 4x slowed down then builds to a smash cut or some kind of jump scare--a move that suggests a lack of confidence and that the director thinks the viewer is an absolute moron; not a single moment of horror or…

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  • Delta Space Mission

    Delta Space Mission

    ★★★★

    this is like watching the weird space Hanna Barbara Cartoon Network block of my youth on 12 ounces of Robotussin

  • Bodies Bodies Bodies

    Bodies Bodies Bodies

    ★½

    Someone in their mid 40s directed this and someone in their mid 30s wrote it and boy does it feel like it. I could really do without these totally cynical Gen Z via NyTimes op-ed movies that keep popping up!