Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Eve's Bayou 1997

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Great little bit of melodrama. Watched on the recommendation of Anthony Gramuglia.

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  Gladiator II 2024

  ★★½ Watched 21 Jan 2025

  I have certainly found worse ways to spend an evening than this but I've also found better ones, too. The CGI is atrociously bad - the monkeys look like some shit out of spy kids, it's ridiculous. I honestly thought everyone gave a great performance (though, let's be clear, Denzel stole the fucking show here). The choreography itself in the fight scenes was passable. If you're looking for a completely middle of the road action movie to waste a couple…

Popular reviews

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  The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping 2024

  ★★ Watched 27 Mar 2024

  Reviewing this poorly makes me feel like such an asshole because, like, yeah, these institutions are fucking evil and ultimately exploring them and explaining how they run is a public good. We can only hope bringing more attention to this eventually spurs some representative somewhere into action.

  However, the filmmaker herself is genuinely what's holding it back a lot. God, I don't want to seem like I'm criticizing someone's trauma, or saying "you need to do healing better," but I…

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  Bottoms 2023

  ½ Watched 24 Mar 2024

  I love Ayo Edebiri in other stuff she's in but this was not it. This movie isn't just unfunny it's like, negative funny. It's a comedy black hole. It sucks the humor out of anything it touches. All the jokes feel like they've been stolen and poorly retold from really dated twitter and tumblr posts. This movie feels like being at a party where a socially awkward stuttering person tries to repeat a dril tweet at you from 2017 and…