Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  A fun, quick, dynamic, and sexy eploration of the emotional walls we create for ourselves and for others. Offers a nuanced view on lying and truth-telling that makes you question what you would and wouldn't do for someone you love. A movie with a bit of a twist that respects the viewer's intelligence. It also looks great.

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  On Becoming a Guinea Fowl 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  A righteously angry and subtle horror film that perfectly captures the torment of living under an oppressive system, our obligations to each other, and what it means to change the world. What happens when a community fails to care for its most vulnerable? What if nobody you are taught to trust can actually be trusted? A story of social collapse and behind it all, often unsaid, the hope of something new being born.

Popular reviews

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★ Watched 19 Jan 2025 2

  I had fun watching this, but I'm split on whether or not I liked what it was saying. There's a Statue of Liberty reveal early on that I think says a lot about what the movie and what America is about. I saw it and felt a kind of dread realization—like watching a video of the moon landing but Neil Armstrong is standing in front of a swastika—but with how the movie ends I wonder if it wasn't meant to…

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  Wicked 2024

  ★★★ Watched 26 Jan 2025

  The Wizard of Oz is one of the best movies ever made. Wicked is just fine. Why did something feel slightly off about the whole production after I left the theater? Why does Fleming's Oz with its matte paintings and dream-like conceit feel more real than in it does in this movie? Why can't more directors get actors to play things up for the camera in a way that seems authentic instead of choreographed and focus grouped? Wicked probably works…