Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Asteroid City 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 03 Jul 2023

  Fuck, the price of film is about to go up again

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  Cutter's Way 1981

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 08 Mar 2023

  Burnt-out and hopeless, it’s characters struggle to find meaning and closure in a decayed and unjust post-Vietnam L.A. that has made clear the hollowness of its institutions.

  It’s characters are by turns righteous, despairing and paranoid; always desperate to numb their discontent with the world and a recognizance of their inability to make any change in it for the better.

  Even direction and the desire to imagine, let alone create a future seem all but out of reach. “Nothing really…

Popular reviews

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  Johnny Guitar 1954

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Feb 2022 1

  Ok DAMN is this movie good. A film that uses everything from costuming and set design to intentionally bad and “fake” moments to critique the artifice of crushing gender binaries and the artifice of western constructions of American norms and ideals.

  It’s often beautifully shot, but intentionally “off” in ways that draw the eye to the construction of the movie and how it plays with the audience’s expectations. More than a hint of a critique of MCCarthyism as a posse…

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  Princess Mononoke 1997

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 07 Apr 2022

  Perfect movie, no notes