Favorite films

Recent activity

• 

  ★★★

• 

  ★★★½

• 

  ★★★★

• 

  ★★★

Recent reviews

• 

  Ludwig 1973

  ★★★ Watched 16 Jan 2023

  Grueling depiction of twinkdeath

• 

  The Menu 2022

  ★★½ Watched 11 Jan 2023

  Mylod’s sole visual idea is staging Fiennes center frame with rows of kitchen lamps in the background flanking his head on either side (he’s a precise man, and he’s in control, get it?) I swear he comes back to this same composition like 6 separate times

  Anya eminently charming, Hoult gleefully hateable, Fiennes collecting a check. Fun ending!

Popular reviews

• 

  Jojo Rabbit 2019

  ½ Watched 20 Oct 2019 14

  Couldn't settle on just one review, so here's eight.

  1. Wow, I love Jews now!

  2. Really good in this movie about the Holocaust to have CollegeHumor-style "I totally wouldn't say this in real life but because this is comedy I can just say directly the things which I want to critique e.g. 'I wish more of our lads had your blind fanaticism'"

  3. Hitwah make fwunny faces an dance :)

  4. There was a lady in the back row…

• 

  I'm Thinking of Ending Things 2020

  ★½ Watched 04 Sep 2020 9

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

  It’s not even worth it to dive into the discursive David Foster Wallace stuff, the diatribe against A Woman Under the Influence, the heated takedown of the problematic lyrics of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”, or the author of the source material and his impressive political connections (his brother-in-law is the President of Iceland… hmm I wonder if he could have gotten some strings pulled? Maybe a book deal wrestled out of the effete hands of Simon & Schuster? Perhaps even a…