Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Matt and Mara 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 03 Mar 2025

  Cute

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  The Cathedral 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Mar 2025

  I really enjoyed this. It hit a very specific nostalgia for me in the first half: big Catholic Italian families taking home tapes on handheld camcorders and eating lunch in the sun with drinks in red solo cups. Much of The Cathedral was so quiet and subtle that the specific emotionality it played into was evoked with severity, for me. So much so that it made me squeamish at multiple points--almost felt like a horror movie at some points.

Popular reviews

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★½ Watched 21 May 2024

  Frankly, overstimulating. Exhausting. The entire two hours and 11 minutes felt like an advertisement — product placement was far too overt. Not nearly gay enough. Too fraught, I’d rather watch a French film for that. Reminded me of the Twilight baseball scene. Idk I believe this will age poorly

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  Duck! The Carbine High Massacre 1999

  ★★½ Watched 23 Apr 2024

  Some charming, funny moments in this movie. Fun characters, costuming. Liked the lighting a lot. Great soundtrack.
  The perversion and sickness of this took over for me after a certain point. Which I guess is part of the pull, but just not for me. 

  Going to need to watch a lot of Rohmers to cleanse my palate after this one.