Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  Watched 20 Mar 2025

  Now that's a classy movie.

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  The Trial 1962

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Somehow even more confounding and claustrophobic than the book for me. Perkins brings a life and desperation to Josef K. that becomes heartbreaking by the end.

  I can almost guarantee this goes up a notch on a repeat viewing because it is incredibly dense. There's an anachronism to the atmosphere in this that Welles completely nails, making every new room that Perkins enters feel completely disconnected with the one he just left.

Popular reviews

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★ Watched 27 Dec 2023 1

  I don’t think Yorgos, a director whose primary characteristics are the ironic distance he has from all of his characters, is that suited to make a story about what it means to be human, a woman, and finding one’s identity. The criticisms leveled at Wes Anderson for being aesthetic overload with little humanity need to be redirected over here!

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  The Lighthouse 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Oct 2019

  Completely serious when I say this is the funniest movie I’ve seen all year