Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Joker: Folie à Deux 2024

  ★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  I kind of respect the willingness to so forcefully and unabashedly alienate everyone watching. Phillips basically rubs the audience’s nose in it for an excruciatingly long 2+ hours.

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  Hot Rod 2007

  ★★★½ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  Cool beans.

Popular reviews

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  Gone Baby Gone 2007

  ★★★ Watched 12 Aug 2021

  Very assured and confident directorial debut from Affleck. Extremely well paced and directed first act with some phenomenal performances by Casey Affleck and Amy Ryan in particular. You are thrown into the action right away and the investigation and plot moves quickly and effortlessly from scene to scene. You can tell the actors are having fun playing with each other but it very rarely comes off as cartoonish and mostly feels lived in and earned.

  I was genuinely (and pleasantly)…

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  The Handmaiden 2016

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Aug 2021

  Visually stunning with some incredible shots. Masterfully crafted and suspenseful throughout with excellent use of flashbacks and the chapter structure is effective. Definitely goes places I did not expect and goes too far in spots - feels indulgent in a way that’s uncomfortable, unnecessary, and excessive.