Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Joker 2019

  ★ Watched 02 Nov 2019 1

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

Recent reviews

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  Chungking Express 1994

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Oftentimes when I’m catching up to a classic film, I find myself thinking that it’s nice when it feels like a film has been waiting for you to discover it. 

  For the first time, I’ve had what feels like the opposite reaction. I wish I’d seen this sooner; in my early 20’s to be precise. I loved it today, but I can imagine it would’ve struck me differently then. I would’ve shown it to dates as a test of how cool they were. I don't even go on dates anymore.

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  Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 2007

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Man, nobody can yell like Phillip Seymour Hoffman. RIP.

Popular reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  I was surprised to learn this is based on a book! There are so many of Bong Joon-Ho’s regular themes throughout that it felt like a mashup of much of his previous work (in a good way.) 

  The apocalyptic future, on a perpetually snowbound planet brings to mind Snowpiercer, while the designs of the creepers recall Okja crossed with rolly-pollies. And of course the class divide that runs through much of his work, from The Host to Parasite. 

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★ Watched 24 Jan 2025

  Has a lot of the hallmarks of the Great American Epic, but fails to actually be particularly great. Guy Pearce’s American accent felt flat to me, sounding like a comedian imitating an American, and not all like an Oscar worthy performance. He gets to yell a lot, though, and they love that too. I dug the score, and there’s some gorgeous photography. I appreciated the acknowledgment that rich white Americans have always exploited immigrants and blamed them for their problems.…