phantomg6

phantomg6

Favorite films

  • Caché
  • Hunger
  • GoodFellas
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day

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  • Babygirl

    ★★★½

  • A Different Man

    ★★★★

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Woman of the Hour

    ★★★★½

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  • Babygirl

    Babygirl

    ★★★½

    Nichole Kidman tightens her stranglehold on erotic Christmas movies, and what can I say? I'm a slut for horny movies, of which we have far too few. This one squeezed all its 3.5-star-juice for me in Kidman's brave (and mostly believable in the face of some absurdity) performance, eliciting an enthusiastic "Hell yeah, Nichole Kidman" from me as she grunted like a feral beast on the floor. But like too many movies that explore kink, it needs to dance around…

  • A Different Man

    A Different Man

    ★★★★

    I was surprised when the credits rolled to see this was both written and directed by the same person, as it feels often in conflict with itself tonally. What feels like a dark and surreal exploration of identity and self on the page received a decidedly more playful adaptation on set and in the edit, something like Kafka undertaking a novelization of "Tootsie."

    That's to say, there's a much darker, more tonally consistent version of this movie made by e.g.…

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  • Emilia Pérez

    Emilia Pérez

    2025 continues to deliver pain and suffering.

  • Dog Man

    Dog Man

    ★★

    I don’t know how to rate this other than to say my 6 year old was very engrossed, even if he laughed a lot less than I might have guessed (fwiw, he gives it 3 stars out of 5 in his first stab at film criticism). Outside of anything else, I will always remember this as the first movie theater experience we made it all the way through; so, thanks Dog Man.

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