Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Summer of Connor 2019

  ★★★ Watched 21 Sep 2023

  happy bi visibility week to this movie, designed in its inception to feel like a memory of something already gone and sure does now. i feel so distant from the world this was made in yet remember every day of the shoot better than most. i also remember crying when i saw it in a series of bi shorts at Frameline because apparently representation does matter? a response from some place this movie was rejected from called it 'a fun,…

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  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2008

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 20 Sep 2023

  My family had never been more excited for a movie. My parents knew the short story and my dad and older brother knew any Fincher/Pitt movie was going to be important, in some way. I was still too young to know anything but I knew the trailer disturbed me. It felt like watching somebody die over the course of 111 seconds (because it is). So we went opening day Christmas '08 and everyone loved it. But the line coming out…

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  Spies in Disguise 2019

  Added 4

  we are so close to christ

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Jul 2023 2

  Jennifer Lame might be the most significant editor since Thelma Schoonmaker. That this movie leaves you in levitation for two full hours, through the trinity test, then slows to a sole focus on nauseating backroom politiking... to me that's just the boldest and coolest shit ever. Between this and TENET she and Nolan are absolute magic together.