Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Lady Sings the Blues 1972

  Watched 16 Mar 2025

  It's such a shame that so many biopics decide to kill their subjects for the second time in lieu of meaningfully bringing their stories to life...

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  Mouchette 1967

  Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Cinema at half-speed. A mid-century Tyler Perry/problem picture template.

Popular reviews

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  Barbie 2023

  ½ Watched 20 Jul 2023 3

  A cinematic murder committed in the first degree. Better understood as an extended Chevrolet commercial than a full-length movie.

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  They Cloned Tyrone 2023

  ½ Watched 22 Aug 2023 1

  For me, this was a thoroughly degrading, caricature-pushing piece of garbage. None of this felt ironic, so it failed in the lessons it may have been trying to ‘teach’ fell flat in light of its many, many indulgences.

  Every black woman in the film, who speaks, is a sex worker who jerk around as they speak and the minstrel show commences, with Jamie Foxx—a pimp—threatening to slap or shoot them in as many ways as he can think to. I…