Favorite films

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  Rudderless 2014

  ★★½ Watched 27 Mar 2025

  Good plot, but ultimately this movie looks really simple. Anyone could’ve directed this.

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  Days of Heaven 1978

  ★★★ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  Described as a poem by most, I did not realize I was literally going to be watching a poem, and not a movie with poetic likeness. This and Only God Forgives continues to prove to me that I will take a good narrative structure over “stunning” visuals. I cannot get behind cinematography being the number one thing we take into account when deciding if a movie is worthy of all its praise, I need substantial things to wrap my head around, not just, landscapes and sweeping shots.

Popular reviews

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  Paterson 2016

  ½ Watched 22 Jan 2022 1

  I appreciate what this film was trying to do, but it's just so boring for no reason at all.

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  Bindlestiffs 2012

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  I don’t know if the angst-filled 16-year-old in me will ever go away. Maybe we all carry some version of that restless, disillusioned kid with us. I do know that if I had read Catcher in the Rye when I was 16, I probably would’ve “done myself in.” That book doesn’t just understand teenage alienation, it embodies it.

  It’s a theme that keeps surfacing in the media I love, Submarine, The Dirties, and now Bindlestiffs. Each of these stories captures…

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