Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  We're All Going to the World's Fair 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Feb 2025

  Parasocial Activity (2021)

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  A Larceny Christmas 2019

  Rewatched 24 Dec 2024

  Deuandra's Sweedish-Italian-Transyvanian-Dutch-South-African-Jamaican ""British"" accent is everything.

Popular reviews

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  Girls & Boys 2015

  ★★★ Watched 12 Feb 2021

  The whole bit here is the boy/girl role reversal. It might look at first glance that it's female actresses playing the male parts and vice versa, but it's actually that it takes place in an alternate timeline where all gender norms are reversed. That's a cute idea, ignoring the binary-normative nature of the conceit, and its executed well...but that's basically all there is to the (half-hour) film.

  It was also perhaps a bit too thorough or literal a conversion: Although…

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  Exotica 1994

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Oct 2020 3

  This was my introduction to Atom, and I'm definitely intrigued. Glancing at Letterboxd reviews, I'm surprised no one has compared it to American Beauty. That was the first thing that sprung to my mind, with all this grief and misdirected emotion. Did they not have therapy in the nineties? If you identify with any of these characters, please see a therapist; it's 2020, we're not gonna shame you for that anymore.

  Other random thought: That opening sequence was fantastic. The…