Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Bridget Jones's Diary 2001

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  i love romcoms so much, especially this era. and i love renee zellweger, incredible that she did chicago immediately after this and got oscar noms for both! i’ve watched a good bunch of heavier films and more challenging watches for this years MAW and this was a nice reset - fun and silly, stakes are not incredibly high or stressful, etc. especially loved the end where bridget runs out after mark in the snow in her underwear. it’s a cute…

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  Goodbye, Dragon Inn 2003

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  incredibly minimalist and slow. very nearly completely comprised of almost painstakingly long takes, and these often turn quite meditative. everything pretty much happens in real time more or less, and there’s no choice but to sit and watch and wait. there’s only a few sentences of dialogue and when the first line is spoken on screen, it feels jarring. we’ve become so accustomed to the silence of characters that it doesn’t actually feel like we’re supposed to hear it

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Popular reviews

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  The Curse 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 Jan 2024

  wow wow wow. you haven’t seen literally anything like this. finale blew me away. i’d been following the subreddit on the curse each week and not a single finale theory came even close to being correct

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  Crumbs 2015

  ★★★ Watched 19 May 2021

  decided to watch this because i saw it on criterion’s list of films leaving the channel at the end of the month. i feel all over the map on this one. overall it’s incredibly unique, i’ve never seen anything like it. there’s some very beautiful visuals. at times, i think the absurdity of the false mythology of pre-apocalyptic pop culture loses its effect. this may have worked even better as a 30min or less short. i loved how quiet this…