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Favorite films

  • Squid Game
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Badlands
  • Synecdoche, New York

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  • Leave the World Behind

    ★★½

  • Law Abiding Citizen

    ★★½

  • The Assistant

    ★★★½

  • Matt Rife: Natural Selection

    ½

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  • Squid Game

    Squid Game

    ★★★★★

    🚨 THE BEST TV SHOW OF ALL TIME ON THE GREATEST STREAMING SERVICE EVER* 🚨

    *This review was not paid for by Netflix and has nothing to do with the fact that I’m a CONTESTANT on Squid Game: The Challenge!

    That’s right: I’m competing against 455 people from around the world in the “real Squid Games” for the biggest cash prize in reality TV history – 4.56 million dollars 😱

    Did I win the cash? Am I now your most…

  • Killers of the Flower Moon

    Killers of the Flower Moon

    ★★★★

    What makes Scorsese so interesting as a filmmaker (among a million other things) is the fact that he’s less interested in the people at the top of the ladder than he is in those one or two rungs below it; the underlings who wrestle with their own aspirations and morals in a world defined by those above them. What sets Ernest Burkhart apart from these characters is his almost comical lack of ambition or moral struggle – he simply “loves…

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  • Leave the World Behind

    Leave the World Behind

    ★★½

    As someone who thinks Mr. Robot is one of the greatest TV achievements of all time, it physically pains me to give this a middling review, but alas, it's what it deserves. When Sam Esmail's firing on all cylinders, he's proven he can direct as well as he writes, but his direction here feels gratuitous rather than purposeful and the script isn't strong enough to carry the torch, reaching in every direction for a profundity it never finds. Unlike other…

  • Law Abiding Citizen

    Law Abiding Citizen

    ★★½

    The kind of movie you think is really clever when you're 12. Case in point: the trick gun booby trapped with tetrodotoxin "isolated from the liver of a Caribbean puffer fish". Like okay Jigsaw!

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  • Love at First Sight

    Love at First Sight

    ★★½

    How the fuck is this not called Love at First Flight?

  • The Fly

    The Fly

    ★★★★

    Would’ve been a 10 if Goldblum had rubbed his little hands together like a fly.