Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Tampopo 1985

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 31 Dec 2024

  Perfect, a warm hug, everything

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  Sweethearts 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Dec 2024

  This trend of casting standup comedians in every single supporting role has to stop unless I like them.

  I don’t know if this was good or just searingly relatable.

Popular reviews

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  Save Yourselves! 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Aug 2023

  Really good, really sweet. Watching this back to back with Bottoms really makes you think about what it means for a movie to be “dated”. People (I’ve also fallen into this trap) have such an aversion to things they think will feel dated in a few years.

  There’s this narcissistic urge to tell austere stories-out-of-time that reveal the grand truths of life hypothetically, not tying them to any one generation or material reality, to make movies that feel “classic”. I…

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  The Changeling 1980

  Watched 13 Jan 2023

  George C. Scott is giving full on Neil Breen. He's never frightened, he's just vaguely annoyed, like his grandkids are explaining pokemon to him.

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