Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Beau Is Afraid 2023

  ★ Watched 05 Jan 2025

  Come on, man. This is like Charlie Kaufman sucking himself off and shitting his pants at the same time.

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  Mind Body Spirit 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 03 Jan 2025

  MBS works as a fairly accurate satire of the wellness industry as well as a decent addition to the screenlife subgenre (although it does play somewhat fast and loose with that approach). Sarah J Bartholomew is highly sympathetic as Anya even as we witness her making ultimately ruinous decisions. A few visual cliches here and there prevent the film from being fully satisfying but for the most part it’s an enjoyable watch.

Popular reviews

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  Arrival 2016

  ½ Added

  A tedious, self-important slog of a flick. Full of people looking gravely concerned in muted grey surroundings. Amy Adams is in it, so that’s another minus. Dull, dull, dull.

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  V/H/S/Beyond 2024

  ★★ Watched 05 Oct 2024

  Though I've seen all of the VHS flicks to date and should therefore know better, I approached this film with higher expectations than usual in the hope that the "cosmic" theme would be consistent throughout.

  It wasn’t. So… what's the point?

  Too much screentime is wasted on talking heads who say little of interest about the UFO phenomenon, and the three segments which address the theme are lumped in with Justin Long's Tusk variation Fur Babies and Virat Pal's insubstantial…