Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Down with Love 2003

  ★★★★ Rewatched 25 Sep 2023

  the gorgeous production and costume design. the pitch perfect comedy and pastiche. the twists on twists. the casting! this movie is a delightful surprise every time sigh kinda need an oral history that doubles as a coffee table book with production details actually (i have the novelization with a fake excerpt from barbara's book found in booksale be jealous)

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  No One Will Save You 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Sep 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  i fully expected this to be a bottle episode with a one-night plot and the expanded world-building is refreshing. i love the kind of unconventional happy ending where the protagonist is genuinely in a better place and free and weightless, but they're still living in a situation that's otherwise poignant and tragic from the outside, especially when it's not the usual creepy psychothriller way where they're only deluding themselves

Popular reviews

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  Watching the Detectives 2007

  ★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2017

  you signed it neil adventure. you crossed out adventure and wrote adventure again

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  Smaller and Smaller Circles 2017

  ★★★½ Watched 06 Dec 2017

  F.H. Batacan began writing as an outlet, at a time in which she had been "very disillusioned, very frustrated, very angry." On a night when she couldn't sleep, she started writing a very vivid, very chilling scene: At a garbage disposal site, a priest is led by a group of children to a small, unmoving hand sticking out of a trash pile. Beneath it, he finds a young boy's corpse, mutilated beyond recognition.

  It's a prologue that immediately sets the…