Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Wolf of Wall Street 2013

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Jan 2023

  Other than the out of place pop punk interludes I loved it

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  Mississippi Burning 1988

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Jan 2023

  A fantastic police procedural marred by white savior politics and standard Gene Hackman macho man bullshit which is harder to swallow with such sensitive subject matter. Black people are just props rather than characters. Despite this, incredibly engaging in a fun thriller way, which is weird for a civil rights era story. 

  
  Dafoe be sexy tho

Popular reviews

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  Rubin & Ed 1991

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Sep 2021

  “My cat can eat a whole watermelon.”

  Crispin Glover’s finest performance in one of the greatest cult films ever made. Outcasts tied to nothing other than their cats and their dreams of Americana. I would wear platform shoes too if I lived in Utah. One of the few films not set in New York city, Los Angeles, Texas, or Boston that truly has a regional sense. Mormonism implied through a pyramid scheme motivational speaker (which is all that religion really…

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  The Crowd 1928

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Sep 2021

  Me and my therapist talk about our cultures need to be special and how freeing it can be to embrace that we are just “one of the flock.” The fact that a film over 90 years old captures this particular life tension so succinctly is incredible.

  I can’t believe it took me so long to see this incredible film especially as I am a huge fan of German expressionism.

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