tailfin

tailfin

i only want to watch movies if they're funny

Favorite films

  • Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
  • The Farewell
  • The People's Joker
  • Parting Glances

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  • The People's Joker

    ★★★★★

  • Heavy Traffic

    ★★★★★

  • Rushmore

    ★★★★

  • Split

    ★★½

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  • Heavy Traffic

    Heavy Traffic

    ★★★★★

    so similar to coonskin at some points- bakshi loves a mob boss eatin spaghetti

  • Rushmore

    Rushmore

    ★★★★

    all love to charismatic fuck-ups

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  • Judas and the Black Messiah

    Judas and the Black Messiah

    ½

    why the fuck is there any humanizing screentime to the people that murdered a 21 year old in cold blood? why is like fucking half of this movie abt the god damned fbi? i also find it interesting that the end the film notes that the FBI fired 11 shots and the Black Panthers fired 1 shot but they conveniently neglect to mention that the 1 shot was fired postmortem, into the ceiling, by someone who was gunned down before…

  • Promising Young Woman

    Promising Young Woman

    ½

    this movie feels very cheap and dishonest. it oozes girlbossery and performative empowerment but where is the actual substance? we never even hear the word rape. everything traumatic and distressing about rape is kept at a comfortable distance so we can feel catharsis whenever she "gets" someone, but we never have to confront reality. the film paints a dangerously benign picture of how men act when they are alone with a woman. we are meant to believe she can confront…