Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Witch 2015

  ★★★★ Rewatched 20 Sep 2020

  This movie really is what Midsommar thought she was...

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  The Devil All the Time 2020

  ★½ Watched 18 Sep 2020

  nah bro

Popular reviews

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  A Gray State 2017

  ★★★ Watched 28 Dec 2017

  There's a point early in the movie where a cohort says of Crowley, admiringly, that he "acknowledged his daughter," as if that's what it takes to be a demonstrably good parent and decent person. It wasn't the first red flag as a viewer, but it strikes me as emblematic of how uniquely ill-equipped a lot of Crowley's friends and family were in recognizing the signs of abuse, and it's not a stretch to connect that to their valorization of a…

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  Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution 2017

  ½ Watched 09 Feb 2018 1

  Basically pulls a 'both sides are equally at fault' while also filming, and failing to intervene against or even attempt to prevent, countless sexual assaults on female students - which totally pulls the rug out from under the filmmaker's rhapsodizing about respecting one another and valuing each other as people. For sure looking at the effect hookup culture has on our relationships with one another is important, and I think especially with regards to how it relates to misogyny, racism,…

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