Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Pokémon Detective Pikachu 2019

  ★★★½ Added

  You can’t fuck up a movie with a noir Chuck-E-Cheese CGI approach to urban planning if Suki Waterhouse is involved in any capacity. A lead named “Justice” playing a character named “Goodman” in a law and order picture? Easy!

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  Paprika 2006

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 09 Feb 2024

  I saw the English dub on the big screen last night. I’ve seen the original with subtitles so many times it took a little adjusting to get into it but Paprika is everything you need it to be. American democracy advertises itself, iron fist under velvet glove, like so: “if you vote for Pedro, all your wildest dreams will come true.” In reality it proceeds like a game of children’s soccer, with an offensive core and periphery: mob and offsides, the latter…

Popular reviews

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  Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic 2005

  ★★★★ Added 2

  This is a stone cold classic but as a Jew I hope my daughter never touches an acoustic guitar.

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  Infinite Football 2018

  ★★★★★ Added

  I played soccer in high school for a couple years and wasn’t very good at it. I got a few minutes in as a forward every so often late in halves of games that weren’t particularly close and could move reasonably quickly but got winded pretty fast and had bad fundamentals. I spent college between Kansas classrooms and Brooklyn summers, not playing any sport besides “walk up the notoriously steep hill to or from class” and “carry a power amplifier…