Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Cedar Rapids 2011

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  a cute, sweetie pie comedy whose tendencies toward being welcoming and forgiving to its protagonist serves as the juice of why I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since its release. It’s just a little different from the crop that it came from. It would’ve been incredible if this had a little bit more of a definitive and cogent point to make about its subject matters of choice, but the spirit that comes across through the brilliant casting,…

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Pretty immaculately conducted and composed. I had so much fun. David Holmes, incredible to hear you again. You make Steven Soderbergh’s movies into synesthetic pop rocks, you GOAT

Popular reviews

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  Orange County 2002

  ★★★½ Rewatched 27 Jul 2020 1

  Still love it <3 It's like if Noah Baumbach pitched a movie and it got directed by a can of Mountain Dew

  Jack Black is fucking FLAWLESS in this.

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  This House Has People in It 2016

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2016 1

  I loved this so much. The visual concept executed so brilliantly, and like Unedited Footage of a Bear, Alan Resnick approaches really dark, human ideas through such abstract and absurdist extremes. It might be an overstatement, but these past two shorts of his have shown David Lynch levels of artistic precision. This one especially really got to me, using everything in its clever setup to tell a story without TELLING the story. But the theme is clear and thorough (albeit…