Favorite films

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  All of Us Strangers 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Oct 2023

  This movie has everything. Urban loneliness, ghosts, leg hair, healing childhood trauma, the Pet Shop Boys, Paul Mescal licking cum off Andrew Scott’s chest, and a few bumps of k to top it all off.

  A big, bold, sentimental swing from Andrew Haigh that feels like the best of all his films put together. One of my faves of the year.

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  Stop Making Sense 1984

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Sep 2023

  A dream of a concert film, kinetic and immersive.

Popular reviews

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  TÁR 2022

  ★★★ Watched 27 Oct 2022 1

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

  Hurt to watch because it was so good and then it wasn’t? For the first two acts, it’s this lyrical, elegiac piece about unknowable, intangible things haunting a genius. And by the end, the thing that was haunting her turns out to be… getting canceled?

  The film sort of turns at that point to make more of a spectacle of how badly she gets canceled vs. exploring the (arguably more dramatically interesting) moral failings that led to her getting canceled.…

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 30 Aug 2023

  I laughed, I cried, I got shot and I had many epiphanies.

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