Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Hokuriku Proxy War 1977

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Snow Yakuza films should have been their own awesome subgenre like Snow Westerns. I should see if there's more of them.

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  Hundreds of Beavers 2022

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 13 Feb 2025

  Watched with the "Trashed" commentary track

Popular reviews

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  Beau Is Afraid 2023

  ★ Watched 22 Apr 2023

  My first ever theater walkout. If I was watching this at home, I probably wouldn't have stopped "watching" because I could do other things while half paying attention to it. The problem is when you're in a theater and there's no escape, and you still have over 90 minutes left of this movie that is just so dully miserable. Babylon was another very long movie I watched recently that I didn't like, but it was at least a little fun…

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  Go West 1925

  ★★★★½ Watched 07 Jan 2022

  I miss when we had movie stars, where you could simply pitch an audience "x is a x" and everybody would be instantly on board before they even saw it. "Buster Keaton is a ranch hand" is absolutely a money concept and Go West not only exploits that for all the comedy it's worth, you get far more invested in Keaton's friendship to an animal than you'd expect. Go West also proves once again that Keaton was way more than…