Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Nosferatu 2024

  Watched 11 Jan 2025

  I don’t want to give it a star rating yet because Alamo Drafthouse had the sound up way too high for me to 1) not be in immense pain before finally making makeshift ear plugs out of paper and 2) to process a lot of the audio at the beginning (before said makeshift ear plugs) BUT I definitely think I Got The Vision with this one. Part of me wishes that Eggers had just flat out made this a silent…

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  Wicked 2024

  ★★ Watched 10 Dec 2024 1

  Worst pacing I’ve seen in years. Had all the elements of a good movie, yet between the editors, production designers, and animators, no one seemed to know what kind of movie they were making. I liked Jeff Goldblum’s Biden impression, though.

Popular reviews

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  Kinds of Kindness 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Jul 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★★ Rewatched 02 Jan 2024

  I mean, I absolutely loved it. Excellent performances from all actors involved, sets that recall Fassbinder's "Querelle," and a score that I will be listening to for a long time. I also don’t think it’s that deep.

  This movie is essentially a young woman’s philosophical journey and path to self-actualization. I don’t think it succeeds in being the feminist treatise it aims to be, although maybe it is enlightening to those very new to feminist ideas. It shies away from…