Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Janet Planet 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Mar 2025

  I laughed. I cried. I marveled at the sound design.

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  Kaboom 2010

  ★★★ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  Very stupid movie to watch on an afternoon you are sick with covid. Amazingly 2010.

Popular reviews

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  The Hottest August 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2019 1

  Less directly about climate change than about white people's refusal to consider themselves working class and the continued belief in protestant work ethic overcoming systemic disadvantages. Great shots, maddening interviews, manages to stay away from didacticism even when you really want it. There's a guy who says "Capitalism is owning things. If you own this table, that's capitalism. So if anything, we need more capitalism. We need to be able to own clean air," and I really wanted the director to put the camera down, pull out a whiteboard, and just explain some stuff to him. I understand why she didn't though.

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  Pulse 2001

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025 1

  A ghost story about the unknowable forces unleashed by the internet? A horror story about zoning reform? A love story about how we all die alone? A film more 2001 than Black Hawk Down?