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Favorite films

  • Enemy
  • Fight Club
  • Donnie Darko
  • Synecdoche, New York

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  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

  • Bring Her Back

  • Friendship

  • April

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

2025

Liked Watched

Characters Delivering Plot To Each Other remains a tiresome genre, and I can’t decide whether the AI commentary is prescient or alarmist, but the big action set pieces rip and (more importantly) Tommy pumps his arms really hard.

Bring Her Back

2025

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Was really feeling this one up until the climax. Always love a horror movie that has its own lore (especially if that lore involves grainy VHS footage), and the camerawork is so smooth and self-assured you can’t help but get sucked in.

But in the final 15 minutes, the story takes a sentimental left turn that’s really odd and disappointing. (Yes, following through with the ritual as planned would be dark and predictable, but everything leading up to that is…

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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

2022

Watched

In more than one interview, Nic Cage openly expressed his displeasure with the way this director portrays him in his film. After seeing it, I totally understand why.

Most notably, he make Cage the butt of the joke. Worse, he does so by playing into unfair Cage stereotypes and memes such as his exaggerated acting style, alcoholism, parenting incompetency, and eccentric artistic taste. He makes him out to be a washed-up drunk who has to keep working because his compulsion…

The Menu

2022

Liked Watched

Totally restored my faith in the industry.

Is there any greater insult than to fetishize food? In doing so, the wealthy reduce a commodity most of the world struggles to consistently procure to a curiosity. They trivialize what’s necessary to survival because survival itself has never been a question for them.

What’s more, they colonize the culinary arts through food criticism and insult true culinary artists by pretending as though speaking eloquently about cooking makes them expert chefs themselves. Bourgeoise…

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