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  Companion 2025

  ★★½ Watched 02 Feb 2025

  wanted to like this a lot based on how it was described but after this i’m really not looking forward to the upcoming slew of post the boys jack quaid hollywood push films. this dude is insincere and unconvincing in a very ryan reynolds manner that makes my skin crawl.

  when writing a script and you’ve arrived at dialogue like “Did you jailbreak your sex bot?” it is maybe a sign that this needed a lot more time in the…

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 29 Dec 2024

  Does evil come from within us or from beyond?

  Genuinely such an incredible film that was enhanced a lot upon second viewing. Provides just the right amount of subtlety in retelling an already well known and beloved story, while also thriving as the most literal of all the Eggers’ movies as a result. There are dream sequences here but they serve the purpose of distorting the characters perspective rather than the viewer. I appreciate that a lot. I think I’ll…

Popular reviews

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  Heat 1995

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Mar 2020

  so sick, didn’t even fully comprehend how many tropes came out of this movie
  grand theft auto literally would not exist without this. honestly mostly kinda floored at how much of the cultural zeitgeist i was missing out on having not seen this earlier in my life. 

  think i probably have heard bands (graf orlock) sample this movie a hundred times
  and i get why, it’s so fucking cool

  looks great
  strong silent henry rollins can beat this ass
  so…

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  Barbarian 2022

  ★★★ Watched 25 Sep 2022

  pretty good but could really benefit from being like thirty minutes longer. love the setup for this and has a ton of potential, but never feels like it fully reaches the crescendo it insinuates its building to