Matt McWilliams

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Favorite films

  • Wild Reeds
  • Lilies
  • Edward II
  • Stranger by the Lake

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  • The Servant

    ★★★★

  • Việt and Nam

    ★★★½

  • Little Death

    ★★★★

  • Bugcrush

    ★★★

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  • The Rose King

    The Rose King

    ★★★½

    Sick little film for sickos. Would love to know what happened to the frog - did he ever get out of the cage? Did he have a name? Can frogs survive underwater for extended periods of time? Herpetologists of Letterboxd please comment.

  • Party Girl

    Party Girl

    ★★★★

    Parker Posey’s delivery of, “I think I’m an existentialist. I do.” is a life changing experience.

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  • Little Death

    Little Death

    ★★★★

    Anthology Film Archives, Narrow Rooms

  • Bugcrush

    Bugcrush

    ★★★

    Anthology Film Archives, Narrow Rooms

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  • Death in Venice, CA

    Death in Venice, CA

    ★★★

    Anthology Film Archives, Narrow Rooms

  • Batman Returns

    Batman Returns

    ★★★½

    “I am not a human being! I am an animal! Cold blooded! Crank the AC!” 

    A fitting thesis for Batman Returns, a movie that is as philosophically minded as it is gleefully irreverent. Armed with Daniel Waters’ lethal bon mots, the characters hiss and squawk and stalk with comic book panache, even as they grapple with ideas loftier than your average DC movie. 

    “You’re just jealous because I’m a genuine freak, and you have to wear a mask,” snarls Danny DeVito’s…