Favorite films

Recent reviews

• 

  Till Death 2021

  ★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Trash of a bygone era.

  It moves pretty quickly but still manages to go nowhere. The thriller format begs for novelty and constant anteing up. While Till Death delivers on this, it doesn't seem to know or care about anything deeper than pure schlock entertainment.

  Considering all that, the premise is well conceived and also remarkably stupid. It's oxymoronic, but it works. There's no point I was taking things seriously, and on a scene-to-scene basis I seemingly gained clairvoyance in…

• 

  Longlegs 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 21 Feb 2025

  Over the past few years, I've felt like I'm noticing a new phenomenon occur. I will watch a relatively small potatoes film with an auteur-ish up and coming director attached—in this case The Blackcoat's Daughter directed by Oz Perkins—and then I will watch as this person's career goes up in terms of popularity and sideways in terms of quality. Thank God he didn't get sucked into the Marvel machine, I guess.

  Anyways, I don't bring this up to say that…

Popular reviews

• 

  Mortal Kombat 2021

  ★★ Watched 23 Apr 2021 7

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

• 

  Smile 2022

  ★★ Watched 31 Jul 2023

  Perhaps the most generic version of modern horror to ever exist.

  It has everything: dream sequence scares including some red herrings or other fake outs, creepy dilapidated houses, creepy ultra-modern houses, sterile hospital environments, setup and payoff involving a cat, a woman breaking a wine glass after being frightened (twice and also lampshaded), moral grayness including a somewhat ambiguous but definitely unhappy ending, an ironically cheerful song that plays during the end credits, a bizarrely out of place glitchy aesthetic…