Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Strike! 1998

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Sep 2023

  pete campbell

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  Rare Beasts 2019

  ★★★ Watched 18 Sep 2023

  honestly weirder movie than i expected. individually excellent scenes for most of its svelte run time but the ending sorta loses sight of the venom and also doesn't rationalize or iterate upon itself in compelling, believable, or funny enough way. the ending does not do it for me. realistically difficult child. piper is among the most beautiful women on the island. directorially and scripting wise made me think of decker and biller, oomf said verhoeven and yup, i've seen comparisons…

Popular reviews

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  Promising Young Woman 2020

  Watched 01 Jan 2021 1

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

  Promising Young Woman asks the question "what does a rape revenge film in the era of #MeToo look like" but is so fundamentally uncomfortable with the idea of that revenge, in any permutations, that the first 3/4s of the film are low-brow 3rd Wave listicle-format lectures on "nice guys" and date rape and it ends with its protagonist, framed the whole time as literally messianic, failing her one attempted murder, getting killed herself, and the "justice" served against the primary…

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  Malignant 2021

  Watched 13 Sep 2021 1

  every bit of horror from the 2010s, from neo gialli revivalism to hereditary to every stranger things inspired 80s nostalgia trip to resident evil to wans brand of zany beligerent incompetent midbrow studio horror to like idk remedy games and bloober team and silent hill fan games, just happening at once, concurrently, with additional 70s exploitation film racism in the costume department and like network television police procedural caricatures. the fact that ray chase, or noctis lucis caem from final fantasy…