Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Sep 2023

  hardest thing to believe here is that the aliens use 12-tone equal temperament. cool that they just wanted to play some jazz w/ us all along

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  The Ring 2002

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Sep 2023

  I too am trying to uncover the blinkered origins of an avant-garde film lest I die in misery 😃

Popular reviews

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  Walker 1987

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 May 2021 1

  jaw legitimately dropped at the credits. somewhere between three-and-a-half and four stars for the picture itself, five full stars for the fucking balls of making this movie in 1987 as a collaboration with not only the Sandinista government but ordinary Nicaraguan civilians using major studio money. jesus the way the ending just explodes any pretense it had of simply being a biopic. also the bit where Walker just struts in there and plays that piano. rly underscores how deranged this…

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  The Scary of Sixty-First 2021

  ★½ Watched 27 Jun 2021 4

  This movie really wants to be Possession, Suspiria, and Eyes Wide Shut all at once. It's none of those things, but feels more like someone took scenes from those and edited them together with a new plot. It would've been more interesting if it actually did that, but instead it aims for homage.

  There's other parts of this movie that would feel breathtakingly experimental and daring if it was not obvious that they were completely unintentional. The emotional arc feels…