Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Dream Scenario 2023

  ★★★ Watched 03 Dec 2023

  This was so fun when it was reminiscent of Charlie Kaufman’s surrealism and hilarious when Nicolas Cage was farting and cumming on himself. But then it turned into a frustrated male fantasy on cancel culture that felt punishing just to get through. Maybe there was something I missed, but this just didn’t fully work for me.

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  May December 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Dec 2023 2

  This fucking floored me. It’s so dark and haunting, yet so campy. So unsettling, and yet so funny. It’s unhinged and restrained at the same time. There are so many memorable and chill-inducing lines (“I don’t think we have enough hot dogs” is an all-timer). This may be Todd Haynes at his very best doing his own soapy take on Persona by way of Almodóvar and I fucking loved it.

Popular reviews

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  Volver 2006

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Aug 2020

  God is a woman and her name is Penélope Cruz

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  The Joy Luck Club 1993

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Nov 2021

  The feminine urge in the 90’s to make movies about generational trauma that just obliterated audiences to tears >