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  Chaos: The Manson Murders 2025

  ★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Chaos is one of the most difficult books to put down that i’ve ever read and obviously i was excited that Errol Morris was adapting it but this is such a disappointment. Morris’ stylistic touches are all here but it operates like every other Netflix doc in that it is effectively a recap of information that is more compellingly and thoroughly presented elsewhere. in this case it’s especially frustrating because it is presented magnificently in… Chaos, O’Neill’s book, which is what…

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  Play It as It Lays 1972

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  this left me thinking and feeling many things and i’m still unpacking it days after seeing it for the first time which is both rare and nice so here are said thoughts and feelings:

  - this movie looks absolutely incredible from the very first shot to the last. the editing and cinematography are some of the coolest - i don’t know what other word to use, what they are doing here is stylistically, categorically “cool” - i have ever seen…

Popular reviews

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★ Watched 31 Dec 2024 2

  absolutely nothing about this movie has stayed with me since leaving the theatre. why? could it be that the four leads make you feel like you’re watching a high school drama club rendition of the source material, or that Eggers doesn’t really do or say anything of value with the iconic imagery and story at his disposal? there are some great moments in the first act but it more or less grinds to a halt by about an hour in…

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  ★★ Watched 19 May 2024 3

  i consider emo and pop punk to represent the end of culture. its ascent to ubiquity coincides with 9/11, poptimism and the advent of social media - harbingers of the apocalypse all - and its unending revival, the repeated reanimation of a corpse long since declared dead on arrival, itself an unrecognizably warped bastardization of the music and subculture from which it claims to be derived, best represents to me the definitive millennial neoliberal experience of refusing to make any…

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