Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Kinds of Kindness 2024

  ★★ Watched 15 Jul 2024

  If “white nonsense” was a movie

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  The Five Devils 2022

  ★★ Watched 04 Apr 2023

  Tell me this movie is written and directed by a white filmmaker without telling me.

  The racial politics and dynamics between these characters are completely ignored. The only other Black woman in this story (and seems like in this entire small French town) is instantly villainized by her biracial niece and everyone around her. Even her Queerness has no agency or complexity. 

  What a bland buttered rice of a film. No curiosity. No nuance. No connection points. Made me not give a fuck about anybody in this movie. 

  Location was dope tho (shrug).

Popular reviews

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  The Leisure Seeker 2017

  ★★ Watched 25 Mar 2018 1

  This movie had everything going for it to be good, on paper. Allstar leads. Decent budget. Premise with depth. But, the ultimate demise was in the film’s directing. 

  Some of the most vital scenes were run through and raw honest performances were thrown away. Helen Miran and Donald Sutherland are two of the greatest actors we have, and yet their natural in scene chemistry was wasted. I kept wishing for a beat in the action for the characters to fully…

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  Brother to Brother 2004

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Dec 2021

  What a shame this film has been buried in the archive.

  Such an incredible cast. Anthony Mackie deserves more than Marvel. Beautifully nuanced story about intersectionality of race, class, and queerness. There are some tender thought provoking moments that I will sit with forever. 

  But… it was shot with a potato. Early 2000s digital cameras were awful