Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Bong Joon Ho 2019: “I’m not surprised Trump didn’t like Parasite because he can’t read”

  Bong Joon Ho 2025: behold, 4-time oscar nominee Mark Ruffalo, in English so Trump knows it was me

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  King Kong 2005

  ★★½ Watched 04 Mar 2025

  Cons: Peter Jackson shooting the Indigenous population of Skull Island like they’re orcs; 1 entire hour before grand ape entrance 

  Pros: Adrien Brody on a typewriter in a comically large cage; Andy Serkis’ head eaten by a giant leech

Popular reviews

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Feb 2025

  Part 1, 5 stars. Part 2, 3 stars 
  I have a lot of thoughts about this film, but I think a solid meta statement about it is that my husband was so conflicted the first time he saw it that he had to bring me along for a repeat viewing the weekend after.

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  Uncut Gems 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  might be the most aggressively Manhattan film I’ve ever seen. and I’ve seen Stuart Little