Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Okja 2017

  ★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Oh so this is GOOFY goofy! Whenever I’d reach a point where I’d think, okay maybe we’ve lost it for real, one of the five dozen actors I love in this would make the craziest fucking choice in the midst of the craziest fucking circumstance, and I’d be like nvm nvm WE’RE BACK IN

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  Before Sunset 2004

  ★★★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  They found the only way I could love a second chapter of the perfectly one-day romance of Before Sunrise: this time it's emotionally cataclysmic. 🚬Exquisite.

  [Work Movie Club essential follow-up meeting]

Popular reviews

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 10 Apr 2022

  Cannot get enough of Ke Huy Quan playing the first movie character in history to go into Hottie Mode by taking off his glasses, then transform into MEGABABE by putting back on *bigger* glasses. Incandescent.

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Nov 2024

  One of my very favorite things is when a movie ends in a way that is itself, on the surface, inconclusive, poetically open-ended, but it hits such a distinct note that it's like it strikes the whole film that came before like a tuning fork, and everything you had seen now has this new shape and resonance, emotional / philosophical / artistic, all of it. God I love that. And that Sean Baker sure is gangbusters at these kinds of…