Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Nightbitch 2024

  ★★ Watched 29 Jan 2025

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

  How is something called Nightbitch so fucking toothless, Snoot McNairy should’ve died

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 11 Jan 2025

  Very fun and propulsive, especially in the fairytale and madcap sections. The shift to Igor’s perspective felt a little paternalistic to both Ani and the audience, that we had to have some guy come in and very obviously sympathize with Ani’s plight for us to get it.  But also, he was just corny, as a character, self-consciously in the movie for a Reason, where every other character was driven by their own goals (or id), bouncing off each other in fun frenetic ways. Would’ve loved Ani’s catharsis if she’d done it alone.

Popular reviews

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  TÁR 2022

  ★★½ Watched 15 Oct 2022

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

  Oh man okay. I’ll start with the good here. Cate Blanchett is fabulous and magnetic and almost makes Lydia Tár feel specific and coherent even when she isn’t written that way. There’s some wonderful individual scenes. It’s well directed and staged. It’s at times a very compelling and at times very funny.

  But overall, I think it doesn’t really have a clear idea of its protagonist or the story it’s telling about her. It starts from a place of real…

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  The Last Duel 2021

  ★★★ Watched 17 Oct 2021 3

  I’m conflicted about this one. The tryptic structure is interesting in theory and part of me appreciates the the differences in events are not that drastic — performances are shaded differently, scenes conveniently excised in one section are given prominence in the other, but the basic reality of what happened is clear no matter who’s telling the story. (Unlike many other movies and TV shows that use this structure; I’m thinking mostly of the Affair, which I abandoned after two…