Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Seed of Chucky 2004

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2023

  most postmodern movie i’ve ever seen wtf

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  Scream VI 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Mar 2023

  insane leap in quality from scream 5. lacks any of the smart pastiche of the craven entries, but still enjoyably solid as a slasher, legitimately pretty funny and some great, crunchy, blunt object-to-face kills.

Popular reviews

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 17 May 2022

  as much as it feels filled with genuine heart and sincerity, its brought down by constant cloying attempts at family guy humour, it’s incessant references and it’s almost cocky self-assuredness. when it sticks to its emotional high-points and family dynamics it really works, and it’s fight choreography is consistently impressive, if only it actually stuck to those strengths a little more. the cast is uniformly great though, yeoh rocks. also the queer arc in this is resolved in an almost…

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  The Northman 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Apr 2022

  probably eggers’ most accessible work - both in terms of narrative structure and genre, but forgoes none of his previous directorial talent and commitment to atmosphere, setting and raw, unflinching brutality. granted, most accessible still doesn’t mean mainstream and it’s honestly insane that any studio was willing to greenlight a $90 million dollar robert eggers movie, but i’m glad they did. the fact that his vision and voice remains so present throughout is a miracle - this is a robert…