Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  God dammit

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  Heat 1995

  ★★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  I told myself for years that I really wanted to watch Heat, only to spend the first half of the movie truly hating it. Things started to turn around when Vincent and Neil got coffee and it stayed pretty solid from there on out. I enjoyed the cat and mouse game between LAPD and Neil’s group, but every other plot line felt like a dud. Sure they informed the characters’ motives—but for such minimal payoff. Now that I have the foresight that the first half is something to endure rather than relish, I could see myself enjoying this on a rewatch.

Popular reviews

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 09 Jan 2025 2

  Nosferatu starring: emphysema

  I’m so glad I watched the original before seeing this rendition. I found it much more fulfilling knowing the basic plot this built off of. Also yay costuming you know I love a good costuming moment!

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  V for Vendetta 2005

  ★★ Watched 25 Nov 2023

  V for Vendetta, starring:
     • some Reddit-using, fedora-wearing guy in a wig
     • Natalie Portman’s awful British accent
     • a bunch of easily confused old white guys
     • an excellent depiction of “trauma bonding” in its true meaning

  I think if I saw this movie in 2005 I would’ve thought it was epic, but I didn’t, so it wasn’t.