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Favorite films

  • Fly Away Home
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Call Me by Your Name
  • House

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  • Viy

    ★★★★½

  • The Wailing

    ★½

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    ★★★★★

  • Babygirl

    ★★★½

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  • The Wailing

    The Wailing

    ★½

    if youre in the mood to watch a cop being useless you sure could watch this

  • Babygirl

    Babygirl

    ★★★½

    I’m certain this movie exists to be a record of the medical marvel that is Nicole Kidman’s 57 year old body. The editing here is done well—most cuts happen as quickly as an intrusive thought can manifest. All of the rapid jumping through scenes reflects Romy’s emotionally dissociative kind of impulsivity. I also think focus on capturing subtle gestures adds a real physicality and nuance, but overall the threat of the souring workplace dynamic could have been better developed to…

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  • I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★

    Moviegoing is such a personal experience. Personally, each time I’m at the theater, I try to walk in expecting nothing and hoping to be pleasantly surprised. I almost never walk in while expecting nothing… and then wind up actually feeling nothing in the most excruciating way possible. And look, maybe conjuring that empty feeling is the entire point of this film. Maybe being bored and tired at the same time is the desired effect to help us self-identify our sad…

  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    One and a half hours of politely flipping through someone’s vacation photos. At a certain point I had to acknowledge I wasn’t going to be able to muster up an ounce of empathy for these characters… and this is kind of an odd experience for me, because normally I feel that it's easy to be transported into new perspectives via fiction. I suppose it turns out it's not that easy if the dialogue and acting are so overwrought that you…