Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Seed of the Sacred Fig 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Feb 2025

  gripping, courageous, deeply impactful. thick tension, explosive ending, chilling and hopeful final shot. i stumbled out of the theater, mind ablaze

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  Companion 2025

  ★★★ Watched 01 Feb 2025

  I was so worried for another January flop but this was fun! Harvey Guillén was fantastic, happy to see him here. Parts had a low-stakes, almost dull feel, maybe due to a bit of overexplanation; many scenes could have been more tightly cut. As someone who avoided that notoriously spoiler-heavy trailer, I did enjoy a lot of the mechanics of the plot. Though I did not love it, I liked it! More Harvey Guillén in things please

Popular reviews

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  Presence 2024

  ★½ Watched 24 Jan 2025 1

  at first, a little boring but threatening to become interesting, but WOW the scene with the medium completely tanked the film. the ghost camera gimmick worked about 20% of the time, and 15 of those were in the first 40 minutes. it just did not really feel like a character. lucy liu was some kind of criminal (kept vague) who wanted to fuck her son (who looked 27)..? writing was half serviceable, half diabolical and usually stagey; “there’s some kind of PRESENCE in this house,” “synthetic fent”

  january is so back

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  Catwoman 2004

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 13 Apr 2019

  a cinematic masterpiece. halle berry gives the performance of a lifetime as a woman struggling between her identities: her mundane existence as patience phillips and her exciting, new life as catwoman. pitof uses the camera to get a deep look into every inch of every location, using like 40 shots in every scene and editing them ALL in. no matter what. truly a remarkable film.

  
  “let me try the remix”