Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Eyes Wide Shut 1999

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 12 Apr 2024

  Unreal on the big screen. My thirst for mystery and paranoia met with a lush banquet- ripe and bursting.

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  The Zone of Interest 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Jan 2024 2

  Phenomenal. Just incredible. Not a moment I wasn’t distraught; blood on the boots, ash in the river, fire in the sky- seeping into Eden, bleeding through the wall, permeating the familial/met with absurd defiance. Truly devastating. A masterpiece.

Recent reviews

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  Saw 2004

  ★★★½ Watched 04 Feb 2025

  It does feel quite like an exceptionally dark and long episode of criminal minds.

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  Berberian Sound Studio 2012

  ★★★½ Watched 11 Jan 2025

  Sumptuously shot and scored, terrific performances and writing. The ending is certainly appropriate for the films tone I just wanted more, more delirium, more paranoia, as well as a greater material consequence, alas- an ultimately delicate and softer psychedelia.

Popular reviews

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  The Forest of Love: Deep Cut 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Apr 2021 3

  Still can’t tell if Sono is a feminist or a raging misogynist

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  Farewell China 1990

  ★★½ Watched 13 Apr 2024 1

  It’s fun and relentless and certainly interesting to see America depicted from outside of the western cultural sphere. Really clunky though: parts of real tribulation and intrepid determination are mixed in with cartoonish moments and it is essentially ruined by a truly bizarre personification of the films critical narrative. Subtlety bleeds hard and fast but maybe that’s the point?