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  Alien: Romulus 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Sep 2024

  lol, shit. seeing all my friends' ratings for this, i skimmed a few reviews and just decided i'm a shameful idiot who will love any sort of remotely good movies or games or comics or whatever set in this universe until i die. and i think that this movie is extremely faithful to the aesthetics of the original film while also not ignoring the later sequels and prequels. this pleases me. i do think that cailee spaeny plays this maybe…

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  The Whale 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Jul 2024

  that so many saw this as a cheap mockery or unsympathetic freak show horrifies me. half-stars, no-stars, blind to pain and shame and love—it's all some sad joke. like, look... i can accept that this didn't move some people, but a review that just says "what if a guy was fat and gay" and has 3k likes or whatever is the kind of shit that really makes me fear people. and if you don't care for aronofsky's tendency to heighten…

Popular reviews

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  The Stuff 1985

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Oct 2013 2

  From the very first scene, where an old man finds a bubbling pool of white goo, exclaims "What the hell is this!" and immediately scoops some into his mouth, this movie is completely fucking bonkers.

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  Cure 1997

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 03 Sep 2016 6

  11 or 12 years since I last saw it? I was still living alone in San Francisco. Throughout so much of this, there is either no music at all or there is a persistent, flat pulsing sound; a strange, resonating drone; the wind blowing. It is not music — it's more like something in place to emphasize the absence of music. Dingy and pale/white interiors, a Tokyo that feels simultaneously overcast and awash in diffuse sunlight, drained of color... All…