Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  All of Us Strangers 2023

  Watched 21 Sep 2023

  andrew haigh i am SUING; i have not cried this hard in a movie theater in a while and i request damages for my emotional distress to paid in tissues

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  Yield to the Night 1956

  Watched 12 Sep 2023

  bleak enough to feel bressonian; stylish enough to have been used on a smiths album cover

Popular reviews

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  The Awful Truth 1937

  Watched 14 Dec 2020

  All-time cinematic performance by a dog here

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  The Velvet Underground 2021

  Watched 22 Sep 2021 1

  This has the distinction of being the first Great Film* I saw in a theater since the pandemic began, and having that realization as the credits started rolling made me weep, because on some level I must have feared I might never have that experience again. So, like: Hallelujah.

  This movie is alive in a way that makes so many other recent documentaries feel dead. Instead of depicting the past through the limited critical viewpoints of the present, Haynes creates…