Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  I'm Still Here 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Feb 2025

  It starts on the radio
  Then as a TV newscast
  Then it passes you on the street
  Then Fascism comes knocking on your door
  It's foolish to think it won't invade your home, your family, your life
  It will whisk you into the night and forever change you
  And yet, you will still be there
  Even when it's stench permeates the air and has ripped away those that you love, you will still be there. So how do you carry…

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  Presence 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Jan 2025

  This movie looks, sounds, feels so great; Soderbergh is of another caliber when it comes to the technical aspects of film. Really great score. Unfortunately, feels a little half baked thematically and plot wise; wish the last 5 minutes of the movie, is the energy the movie brought the entire way through. Think the concept of trauma, grief, and familial tension embodied as an otherworldly presence in the American household is really great, but just doesn't work out as well…

Popular reviews

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  All About Lily Chou-Chou 2001

  ★★★★★ Watched 10 Aug 2024

  Amazing. Maybe the quintessential movie about the teenage experience and angst in the internet era. Reality is a void; a meaningless existence. We go through our carefree childhood days without a second thought, and then before you know it, you're drowning. In a second, you've become jaded to the world around you, a world you seemingly have no control over. A world where earnestness and profiency make you a target. Where conformity is law, lest you step out of line…

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  Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion 1997

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 17 Mar 2024 1

  I feel like there's such a push amongst moviegoers to "understand" a movie; that everything must make sense in a logical way, that you have to "get" a movie to enjoy it and that if you don't, that's a fault of the movie. This is a sentiment I wholly reject; I think cinema is so much more about what you got out of a cinematic experience, and how it affected you emotionally/personally. Maybe you can't explain it, but you can…