Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  There’s kookiness and then there’s quality kookiness—Robert Pattinson and Bong Joo Ho both fall into the latter category. Quality kooks

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  Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Feb 2025

  Who’s this? The poet? Mr. Tough. 

Popular reviews

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  My Octopus Teacher 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Nov 2020

  Anytime I see someone eating octopus in a restaurant, I’m gonna walk up to them and say, “buddy, that thing is probably smarter than one or two of yr aunts or uncles. Have a good meal, visitor.” Then I’ll flip the table and leave.

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 27 May 2024

  Some amazing images, amazing music, but drifts at times into too-obvious metaphor/allegory land, which maybe is intentional (idk!). Feels like the kinda movie that’ll continue to grow on me, though, the more I sit with it & the more I listen to it