Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Gambler 2014

  ½ Watched 12 Jan 2025

  This script is so bad

  Dude is given $260k of his mother’s savings after her life is threatened over his debts, gambles it away immediately after at a casino, and then gives a garrulous speech to Brie Larson about how he does it all for the white picket fence he was promised by the American Dream (he lives in a multimillion-dollar LA mansion)—she’s so taken by how he says it she immediately jumps on him

  Why couldn’t the writers just fellate themselves somewhere else

  The protagonist is so cringe…god…this shouldn’t exist

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Jan 2025

  Astronaut #1: My God—were we all the thin man?

  Astronaut #2: No shit

Popular reviews

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  Stalker 1979

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Feb 2017

  The journey inward? A tale of self-actualization? Of self-repudiation? Of fear in the face of truth? Of man's capabilities? The obstacles of the path? The demand of the superego?

  This film isn't speculative, it's observant. It feels omniscient. Like a spiritual experience; it knows your mind and your life in ways that you never believed a film ever could.

  I'll be dissecting this for a long fucking time.
  Just found a new favorite.

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  The Matrix Resurrections 2021

  ½ Watched 24 Dec 2021

  It’s as if Lana was so obsessed with referencing the iconography and aesthetics of the original trilogy she refused to bother with either exploring or admonishing the depths that inspired the source symbols in the first place.

  The script of this film is almost impossibly vacuous—restarting with a non-enlightened Neo is supposed to be an invitation to investigate what we might define “enlightenment” as; I even thought at one point with the mention of Neo essentially being trapped in a…