Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Distinguished Gentleman 1992

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Boy I love how prescient the culture wars were.
  Are?

  The director doing this and ‘My Cousin Vinny’ in the same year is a feat of its own.

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  Marie Antoinette 2006

  ★★★½ Rewatched 20 Mar 2025

  Viva la Jamie Dornan as a homewrecker

Popular reviews

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  The Transformation 1996

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Sep 2022 2

  Many films, books, and media have narrated the lifespan of the AIDS Crisis. The craft of narrating trauma, ostracization, and pain, with intention is what few do and the The Transformation accomplished. In a society over-satured with AIDS/HIV narratives which describe at ad nauseam gay-male culture a movie like this was ahead of its time.

  Aiken and Aparicio offer a testimony of trans communities of color in NYC all while resisting the impulse to glamorize such an experience in the…

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  The Unknown Country 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 May 2023

  What if another amazing director watched Certain Women and, after seeing someone so effortlessly convey the feeling of want, of driving a four-hour trek to see Kristen Stewart was then given a full-movie?

  There were many influences for 'The Unknown Country.' Zachary said "it's a spiritual journey in the vein of Nomadland that's less about answers and more about that vague feeling of emptiness", Others said it reminded them of Kent Mackenzie’s The Exiles and the Ross Brother's Bloody Nose…