Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  The Servant 1963

  ★★★½ Watched 25 May 2024

  There's a part of this film where a bell rings nine times for 9 pm and at the EXACT SAME TIME EXACTLY IN SYNC WITH THE FILM AUDIO the church near me struck its bell nine times for 9 pm

Recent reviews

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  For a movie about religion it seems like any sense of spiritualism is absent - it's got the dull visual sheen of a TV miniseries, the phoning-it-in discordant violins, but nothing that feels transcendent. But it was undeniably gripping, the acting is mostly great aside from a few random blow-ups that stick out. It opens some solid questions about how the dangers of a rigid dogma heavily overlaps in both politics and religion, or, on the opposite side, the pros and cons of a rigid idealism. but I feel like there's probably a better movie out there that addresses the same issues.

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  American Psycho 2000

  ★★★★ Rewatched 28 Jan 2025 3

  The film is so over-the-top in pitch-black satire that you think it would lose its effect on rewatch but nope, it only gains more and more meaning and subtext each time. Acting so vile and evil and everyone acting like it's either no big deal or didn't even happen feels more relevant than ever.

Popular reviews

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  nothing, except everything. 2023

  Watched 30 Apr 2024

  I don't go to Yale, but I live near it. They had a 'Yale Student Film Festival' recently which I attended some events at. Most of the films by Yale students were essentialy this, but with a lower budget and with mostly amateur cast and crew.

  Hold on, I just realized what i just said. the films by YALE STUDENTS IN COLLEGE were LOWER-BUDGET and MORE AMATEUR than a film made by a guy in HIGH SCHOOL.

  The films I…

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★ Watched 22 Jul 2023

  So I went to see this in IMAX - the first movie I've seen in IMAX. Can't remember the last time I was in a theater that big, or that packed. Despite this being a Nolan film in IMAX, the trailers were STILL louder than the movie!

  And yes, it is very much a Nolan film - the film surprised me by taking a similar structure to Memento, probably my favorite Nolan. Alternating between one time period in color and…