Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Demonlover 2002

  ★★★★ Rewatched 24 Jan 2025

  Assayas at his most clinically precise… a look at the procedural and at times nonsensical coldness of culture as it indexes and prefigures the all-groping, tentacular crisis of capitalist capture.

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  Of Dogs and Men 2024

  Watched 02 Oct 2024 1

  Vile, deceptive and utterly hateful product of a militarised media regime committed to safeguarding the status quo of settler warfare.

  The Korean Cultural Alliance for Palestine has a good open letter about this on the occasion of the BIFF and the one year mark of Oct 7: docs.google.com/document/d/12P83WGr1sua_nGUwCdAETb9_izRKvNdH-lIgNWf4-Ig/edit

Popular reviews

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  Dead Pigs 2018

  ★ Added

  I was rooting for this but holy shit what a horrifying and cruel way to end the last 15 minutes of what could've been at the very least an amusing and endearing, if schematic, treatment of the modern precariat at the heart of Chinese capitalist urbanism. And this is both politically and stylistically chilling. Any benefit of the doubt I had for the rest of this film immediately dissipated when the entire cast broke into 4th wall breaking karaoke chorus…

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  Palm Springs 2020

  ½ Added

  I feel like people are rating this highly because they're too surprised this didn't flop? The fact that no one had any chemistry in this didn't help with the whole being done to death thing

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