Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  I Hired a Contract Killer 1990

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Nov 2023

  JPL finds love in a hopeless place and gives perhaps his most alien performance, which is really saying something.

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  Eight Point Star 1996

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Nov 2023

  Meet me at the intersection of naïve A-G animation and Tropicália

Popular reviews

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  Metropolis 1927

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Apr 2015 5

  Just me or could you cut the sexual tension between Freder and Josaphat with a KNIFE

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  L'Atalante 1934

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Sep 2014 5

  I approached this as usual, like a canonical chore! It's petty and a nuisance, but I don't like my completist bent, I don't want movie homework, and so I can sometimes be less open hearted than I'd like to be when it comes to the real macdaddies of film academe, like this one.

  There's usually some sort of technical board pin to spot. The first film to employ such-and-such. Poetic Realism in the case of this film, apprently. But that…