Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★ Watched 20 Jan 2025

  Hey there cabby, wait a minute! There’s an ELECTRIC guitar back here!

  1 hous of “ummmm (60s folk icon) is right behind me, isn’t he?” & another hour of songs performed in their entirety. And then 20 minutes of songs played partially. 

  Imagine taking the most enigmatic, iconoclastic, & irreverent pop star (gasp) in history and making a paint by numbers biopic that dares to ask, “how can we be LESS inventive than what came before us?” 

  From the freak that made…

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Jan 2025

  Nosferatwo big thumbs up from me. Far from perfect and probably not my favorite nosferatu, but if this is what people want to spend  $50mil on I’ll rest as easy as the Count does. Nice way to start the year.

Popular reviews

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  The Brutalist 2024

  Watched 21 Dec 2024 14

  I loved it but legit Brady corbet (who I assume grew up with his last name pronounced core-bitt and now probably goes by core-bay) is the most insufferable, pretentious jackass to get beyond a camera since prick of the decade trey Edward shults. Has never made a choice that didn’t insist upon itself and I imagine that smug fucker sitting in the editing room smiling at those choices  every time he watched it. I’m still not over the credits happening…

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  Megalopolis 2024

  Watched 28 Sep 2024 2

  The amount of virgins lurking in the darkness of my theater like mouth breathing stalagmites, dead set on hate-laughing at this movie before the first frame even went up, makes me want to never watch a movie in a theater again. 

  Nobody is above a film. Nobody can determine intentionality besides the filmmakers involved. 

  You are not in on the joke because you let everyone around you know you think a movie is bad by laughing at every other beat.…

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