Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Dec 2021

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Cats 2019

  ★½ Watched 26 Dec 2019

  I saw Cats when I was 13 years old. Old Deuteronomy and I stared at each other while he sat there during intermission (I had just experienced my first breakup and was very sad), and it was a nice fourth wall breaking. I liked the costumes, the songs, the dancing. I could live with the lack of a plot, and have spent the last 13 years defending this musical. I've also stood up for Tom Hooper's Les Miserables, which I…

Recent reviews

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  I'm Not a Robot 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Feb 2025

  Honestly at this point if I found out I was a robot, I don't think I'd care that much.

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  Flow 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Feb 2025

  This cat looks identical to my cat in both appearance and body language and therefore the amount of stress I felt at the danger in this movie was truly exponential.

  Between this and The Wild Robot, I'm about to only care about animated movies without any humans henceforth during this Oscar season.

Popular reviews

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  Bones and All 2022

  ★½ Watched 03 Sep 2022 1

  The dissonance for me between the gushingly, overwhelmingly positive reviews and my own experience with this film (and the apparent experience of the MANY people I watched walk out, including and especially during the last scene) is genuinely baffling. I honestly hated this film. It is pretty, and I guess there is something here about how everyone deserves love, but some of the metaphors become truly regressive if you follow them through the film. The dialogue is beyond hokey, YA…

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  Finding Vivian Maier 2013

  ★★ Watched 18 Feb 2015

  Watching John Maloof's cognitive dissonance as he tries to understand how Vivian Maier could be so private but obviously want him to make a fortune off of her talent becomes borderline comedic.

  Vivian Maier is fascinating and her work is absolutely lovely. This film hardly scratches the surface of what seems to be a complex tale of generational trauma, mental illness, and the interplay between creativity and mental instability, and frankly, Vivian Maier's story and talent are worth more than what John Maloof has to offer in this exceptionally run-of-the-mill documentary.