Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Police Story 1985

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Mar 2025

  "Police Story... so awesome"
  - Roland Barthes (1915-1980) 
  
  [how did he know?]

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  Alice and the Mayor 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  it's a familiar, tried-and-true formula: the young literature PhD/philosopher is brought in to advise the old socialist mayor, and the two form an unlikely friendship. but this time around, that tired and well-worn story sparkles with new life <3
  - Roger Ebert (reviews from the Vault)

Popular reviews

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  His Motorbike, Her Island 1986

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Jun 2020 1

  everyone’s just ignoring the part where they order “onion pizza”
  but yes time to become wind

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  The Square 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Dec 2017 2

  EDIT: i was like 9 when i wrote this, so i know it’s not great—but yes, the 5 star rating still stands emphatically!
  misunderstood masterpiece

  
  So utterly NEW and refreshingly CLEAR and funny and hypnotizing and
  blah blah blahbal bhalhblabh!!!

  Seriously, what can I say. I'm getting a headache trying to type anything about the 🔳, because I know I'm part of a small minority that was won over by it with basically zero reservations. (I was actually a secret…