Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Aug 2023

  "When this kind of fire starts, it is very hard to put out. The tender boughs of innocence burn first, and the wind rises, and then all goodness is in jeopardy."

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  The Lobster 2015

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 03 Jan 2023

  "When we turn our heads to the left it means, 'I love you more than anything in the world,' and when we turn our heads to the right it means, 'Watch out, we're in danger.' We had to be very careful in the beginning not to mix up 'I love you more than anything in the world' with 'Watch out, we're in danger.'"

Recent reviews

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  The Exorcist 1973

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Sep 2023

  The 50th anniversary 4K release is spectacular.

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  Morgan 2016

  ★★ Rewatched 16 Sep 2023

  This movie wants to be something like a cross between Ex Machina and Blade Runner but seems to miss the point of both and ends up going nowhere. I would love to know how so many incredible actors got tapped for this.

Popular reviews

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  The Girl Before 2021

  ★½ Watched 11 Feb 2022

  Every single man in this show should be shot in the street like a dog.

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  HyperNormalisation 2016

  ½ Watched 27 Jan 2021

  At one point Curtis refers to Palestinians protesting the Israeli apartheid state by marching toward the border while being shelled by the IDF as "just theatre." I don't even know what to say. I find it fascinating that, in a documentary that professes to be about how limited our collective imagination is, Curtis himself seems so firmly anchored in the mainstream perspective. He repeatedly proclaims that the radicals of the '60s simply gave up—rather than getting, you know, assassinated, blacklisted,…