Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Party Girl 1995

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  difficult to overstate how much our culture lost when indie films got priced out of assembling cunty licenced soundtracks (see also: the last days of disco). much love to charli xcx but pitching a remake of this with rachel sennott should get you banned from movies

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  Grand Theft Hamlet 2024

  ★★★½ Rewatched 27 Feb 2025 2

  definitely suffers on a rewatch when it becomes more apparent that at least some of this is less scene-recorded virtual doco and more like one of those obviously staged e3 demos. soooo salty i missed out on getting free mubi merch at that acmi screening.

  still heaps of fun; will never stop marvelling at watching people repurpose game mechanics in unintended ways, especially within a sandbox as dense as los santos. sorry to repeat the joke i already made on…

Popular reviews

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  tick, tick... BOOM! 2021

  ★★★ Watched 17 Nov 2021 7

  dear evan hansen 🤝 tick, tick... boom!
  wait, he isn't gay?????

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  Perfect Days 2023

  ★★ Watched 09 Aug 2023 26

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  textureless, pre-digested cinema. i like wim wenders quite a bit, especially in this stripped-back, observational mode, but there's an air of desperation that slowly suffocates this film. it's so terrified of being even the slightest bit unlikeable that it can't help but conceive of its character being anyone but the nicest, gentlest lil guy on earth, with only a wrinkle of genuine humanity devoid of affect hinted at in its last ten minutes.

  i'm usually quite soft on twee,…