Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  I wanna be Cate Blanchett when I grow up...

  Love a succinct 1hr30 movie that resolves all of its loose ends in a satisfying way. Love when a movie respects its audience enough to not overexplain every little detail to me. Love sleek spy movies even though all of them are effectively bitchin propaganda for the state. Love sexy people lying, cheating and backstabbing but ultimately trusting and loving eachother too?

  Also, give Regé-Jean Page more roles! He's ripe for Bond or some similar action movie (I am Ignoring Gray Man, I did not and will not watch it)

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  Son of the White Mare 1981

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  Profoundly beautiful and moving; a masterpiece by every sense of the word. Every frame has some jaw dropping piece of animation you've never seen before, with creative transitions/edits/camera pans that also add to the film's energy and kineticism. Yet, one of the movie's biggest strengths is that despite its grand epic nature, there's multiple moments of levity (GOD BLESS YOU!, the spanking scenes??) that make these folklore characters feel timely and alive. It's just impossible to not be enraptured by…

Popular reviews

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  Megalopolis 2024

  ★★½ Watched 23 Sep 2024

  I KNOW WRITERS WHO USE SUBTEXT AND THEY'RE ALL COWARDS.

  One of the most movies of all time, for better and worse. At its best, it's a dizzying display of opulence and utopianism from a director who is still taking huge swings at 85. The montages and triptych scenes are the film's strongest, ranging from surrealist dream sequences to Citizen Kane-style news blasts. The costuming is almost worth the price of admission alone, expertly blending ancient Rome and high fashion…

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Sep 2024

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