Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Anatomy of a Murder 1959

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Rules upheld are rules broken.

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  On Becoming a Guinea Fowl 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  You should see this movie!

Popular reviews

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  I-Be Area 2007

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 30 Jan 2020

  In 2007 this movie felt like a transmission from a foreign place. In 2020 it feels like local footage.

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  Here 2024

  Watched 02 Nov 2024

  An AI puppet show directed by Peter Greenaway for a Christian studio. Several Disney park attractions wrapped around or distended into 100 minutes of anti-cinema. Surprising, exasperating, impossible. Less the worst movie and more a wild, strange cultural and textual black hole. What Here — adapted from a graphic novel the way, I assume, extrajudicial interrogation is adapted from the justice system — does to the idea of a scene is next to structuralism (typically a favored ethos of mine,…