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Favorite films

  • Mikey and Nicky
  • Matthias & Maxime
  • Wild at Heart
  • Bergman Island

All
  • Alpha

    ★★★½

  • Die My Love

    ★★★★★

  • The Chronology of Water

    ★★★★

  • Eddington

    ★★★★½

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Alpha

2025

★★★½ 1

“If something happens to you, it happens to me.”

I have to it it took me a while to digest this film, in the way that I genuinely couldn’t tell if I had liked it or not.

The verdict: I like the idea of it more than I like the final product itself.

It isn’t news that Julia Ducournau has masterful ideas that challenge every single expectation her audience could have, and while the central AIDS-related metaphor is very plain,…

Die My Love

2025

★★★★★ 1

“Everybody goes a little loopy the first year… but you’ll come back.”

If they’re forces to be reckoned with as individuals, nothing can prepare you for the absolute powerhouse that is a collaboration between Lynne Ramsey and Jennifer Lawrence, two of our most fearless, audacious and evocative film artists.

Jennifer Lawrence strips herself raw in the role of Grace, showcasing a fierceness and vulnerability that is commendable by itself, and that becomes transcendental when paired with the ing performances of…

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Joker: Folie à Deux

2024

★½ 158

This is like when that one mediocre kid somehow got 100% on a test but everyone knew it was just because he copied the actual smart kid but then the smart kid changed seats so he went on to get 0.5% on the next test because he couldn’t rip anyone off anymore.

All this to say, this was fucking trash.

Barbie

2023

★★½ 355

“I want to do the imagining, I don’t want to be the idea.”

I almost don’t want to say anything because people will think I’m “just being a hater” no matter what I say, but I couldn’t call myself a critic if I didn’t.

Unfortunately, I found this movie to be as hollow as the plastic dolls that inspired it. 

Every scene in this script tries to convince you that it’s saying something important about gender, sexism, humanity. But it…