Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Paddington 2 2017

  ½ Added

  a thoroughly unrealistic portrayal of prison conditions

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Dec 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Recent reviews

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  Black Narcissus 1947

  ★★★½ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  fully radiant, and it’s incredible that they got these images on a soundstage—the intention built into every element of light and wind, those gorgeous glass backdrop paintings. unfortunately, it reproduces the colonial imaginary in such detail that it is jarring when it basically doesn’t end up being a movie about colonialism at all.

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  Coffee and Cigarettes 2003

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 01 Mar 2025

  a glorious collection of shorts, made all the better for the little parallels that run between them. I love that the overhead shots of the tables are mostly cut in without any particular regard for continuity, which reads as a little recurring joke rather than something to haul out the bell about

  lots of great little quotable bits but there are equally many completely unquotable silences which are just as compelling. Deeply silly and joyful surreallity comes up against very…

Popular reviews

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  Night on Earth 1991

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Dec 2024

  the later it gets at night the sadder and weirder it is to be in a cab driving an hour across the city

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  Paddington 2 2017

  ½ Rewatched 28 Dec 2023 5

  I was convinced to give this another shot by the fact that several people I like and respect told me I was crazy for hating it, and now I like and respect them a little bit less.

  to be fair, I had a bit of a knee-jerk reaction to the flat characterization and lazy prison tropes the first several times I was subjected to this movie screening in my proximity, and my admittedly glib original review reflects the fact that I…