Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Malum 2023

  ★★½ Rewatched 03 Jun 2023

  It’s a movie.

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  He's Just Not That Into You 2009

  ★ Watched 22 Jan 2021

  What is this, America?? Is toxic romance your Religion? Are you a nation of Narcissists and Codependents? What exactly is Drew Blythe Barrymore playing in this movie also? Is that a person? That’s not how a person is. Explain yourselves, America.

Popular reviews

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  Stalker 1979

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Aug 2015

  There is a level of believable opaqueness that I often find in my favorite films; a quality that tells me that there is much more underneath the surface. It rises above being contrived crypticness through a sense of intuitive coherence and humanness. The context in Stalker is a surreal, artificial "Zone" that defies human logic. It is a wondrous, intriguing stage to three very humanly flawed characters. I don't find it hard to trace their inner processes despite the alien setting or their often literal dialogues. I feel, instead, a sense of empathic wonder that makes me want to know more.

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  Argo 2012

  ★★½ Watched 25 Oct 2015

  "Argo fuck yourself."

  I don't know man, at 31, I just might be too old for the Hollywoodisation of things that happened in real life. I simply can't deal with the molding of people, places, and events into tired archetypes, elaborate yet passive set pieces, and dumb scenes where the hero says that curt yet badass thing and the bad guys act bad really badly, especially when you wrap it all up in patriotic kitsch.