Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Her 2013

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 10 Mar 2025 2

  thinking about when I was fifteen and showed this to the girl I was madly in love with. she didn’t get the movie, so naturally my crush disappeared. was I a dramatic bisexual or a pretentious cinephile first? 
  who’s to say?

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  Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain 2021

  ★★½ Watched 04 Mar 2025

  loved the first half, which felt like it really captured the early & enigmatic days of Tony.

  hated the second half, which felt gross and exploitative and more about Asia Argento than the documentary’s subject.

  I love and miss Anthony Bourdain. He was a deeply complicated person, but at his core was so much curiosity and a bone-deep goodness. I wish this doc did a better job of capturing that.

Popular reviews

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  How to Survive a Plague 2012

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Sep 2020

  scenes that made me cry:

  1) at the cathedral when the activists were heckling the archbishop (truly iconic)
  2) Ray Navarro’s speech (rest in peace king ❤️)
  3) unnamed man scattering the ashes of his partner in front of the White House (this is when the sobbing began)

  gays are so fucking resilient. so proud of my community, always

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Jan 2023 1

  what really struck me upon rewatch is how perfect the decision is to have Sophie as 11. she’s not yet a teenager — like the British tourists she watches through the keyhole, almost gazing upon herself in a few years. But she’s no longer a child — like the young boy pulling a temper tantrum by the pool, dragged off by his father. it’s moments where Sophie feigns maturity (switching out her shirt under her swimsuit to a bikini, longing to…