Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Free Willy 1993

  ½ Watched 04 Feb 2023

  Avatar 2 has made me realize that all movie whales should be subtitled

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  White Noise 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 Jan 2023

  Noah Baumbauch has successfully made one of my favorite Cronenberg movies.

  Such a dizzying take on middle-class neurosis and the looming threat of death that no amount of being "comfortable" or "established" or "outstanding in your field" can abate. The universe of White Noise feels like what a 1980's america would look like had the Axis won WWII; academia populated by mediocre intellectuals studying the great men of the past as if understanding the entirety of their histories would yield…

Popular reviews

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  Spencer 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Nov 2021

  like the shining for lesbians

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  Cosmopolis 2012

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Sep 2022

  it feels like Cronenberg is taking stock with this movie - where we are, where we're going, why things haven't gotten better and what it takes to move forward. why does packer never truly fall in this movie, despite having flown so close to the sun? he's a man who has everything but this omnipotence serves to hollow him out more than anything. his life is perfect but perfection is antithetical to life. perfection is a frictionlessness that would drive…