Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Erin Brockovich 2000

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 08 Mar 2025

  The definition of a perfect movie. Everything down to each technical aspect simply WORKS! Brilliant acting from everyone (especially an extremely deserved academy award to Julia Roberts), Brilliantly and tightly written, amazingly directed by one of our best working, shot so phenomenally by Ed Lachman, Thomas Newman’s score is amazing too I mean it just works!!! If there are movies that are “acquired tastes” this sits at the complete other end of the spectrum. It’s just so tightly and perfectly…

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  Brokeback Mountain 2005

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 01 Mar 2025

  As moving as a story can be. In Brokeback Mountain, it’s as if love is elastic. For so much of the movie, the love is distant. Even upon the mountain they see each other fields away, staring out towards the other as if pools in the desert, as the other soul on the mountain. And each time this distance grows, you can feel the tension build within the rope of the lasso tying them together. Sure it snaps back into…

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 03 Nov 2024 4

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

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  Queer 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Oct 2024

  An exploration of telepathy. The strongest pulls of desire. Queer is without hesitation one of the strongest pieces of sheer sensuality in the cinematic form. I’ve been a pretty dedicated fan of Guadagnino for a few years now, really connecting with every piece of his work I’ve seen, but what dawns on me as I’m writing this is that my takeaway previously has always been other to Luca’s direction. Whether it’s the performances or music or the visuals (obviously all…