Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Gaga: Five Foot Two 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Jan 2022

  accidental flop era doc trying to rescue gaga from the damnation of a crowdsourced npd diagnosis

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  Magnificent Obsession 1954

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Feb 2024

  forgive me for speaking ill of the dead but there’s something eerily on the nose abt rock hudson playing a character who lies abt his identity, gives ppl large sums of money, and demands they keep quiet

Recent reviews

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  Margaret 2011

  Watched 21 Jan 2025

  pretty slippery, delightfully and intentionally so.
  Not sure if this has already been said, but, Do The Right Thing double feature?

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  WHAT DID JACK DO? 2017

  Watched 20 Jan 2025

  is this abt hanuman?

Popular reviews

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★½ Watched 21 Sep 2024

  1. Switch out Coralie Fargeat’s name in the credits with Ryan Murphy’s and I’d believe it. Fargeat has a similar allusive instinct to Murphy. They reference the same writer/directors (Lynch, Kubrick, Mankiewicz, Wilde, Hitchcock—surprisingly very little Cronenberg influence here) merely as intertextual commentary (or just for superficial amusement/manufactured legitimacy) as opposed to synthesizing a unique syntax from those references. This approach is most evident in the third act. When the Vertigo score plays over Monstro ElisaSue painting her face, we’re…

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Jan 2025

  not an epic, not supposed to be