Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Presence 2024

  Watched 15 Feb 2025

  a smart enough twist on the usual haunted house subgenre, i think its (intentional) formal limitations actually give greater weight to its central "performance" - i.e. it actually feels like what it might be to be a ghost, forlorn, confused and trapped in liminal space. by no means "scary" in the usual horror sense, it nonetheless left me more unnerved than much regular horror. that final scene is effective and lucy liu gives a *great* scream

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  High and Low 1963

  Watched 14 Feb 2025

  cant believe i'd be out here rooting for the cops and a majority stakeholder, crazy what masterful blocking and densely detailed plot will do to a mfer

Popular reviews

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  Christmas on Windmill Way 2023

  Watched 30 Nov 2024

  my favourite thing in american film and culture is when theyre like "ah yes my historical preservation of things that are 80 years old, please do not destroy the very long and storied history of my idiot baby country"

  anyway this one was really boring and turgid, none of the wonderfully unhinged hallmark energy where it feels as if the film was written by robots for an audience of robots. just a slog really. dare i say my boy chad michael deserves better??

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  Ghosted 2023

  Watched 23 Apr 2023

  handily one of the worst films ive ever seen. looked variously like a videogame or a car ad, im just so shocked that professional imagemakers of any ilk would find it okay to unleash this as a finished product.

  you would think that a-list actors are partly a-list actors by virtue of some inherent charisma

  zero laughs, zero charima, zero chemistry

  as my partner pointed out they made ana de armas look like the vampires in twilight right after theyve fed on wild animals and frankly its hugely distracting

  this film has four FOUR FOURRRRR credited screenwriters.

  every day we move further from god