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I used to write criticism; now, I invite it. I like movies with snow in them.

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Recent reviews

A Walk to Remember 2002

Watched 05 Jan 2025

This all happened to me, but it was gay.
Speed Racer 2008

Rewatched 04 Jan 2025 1

Iron Man (a movie I really like!) eating this movie’s lunch at the box office increasingly feels like a “two roads diverged in a wood” moment for, like, human civilization.

Popular reviews

I Saw the TV Glow 2024

Rewatched 20 May 2024 8

The beauty of this film is that it works on multiple levels and is intensely relatable to trans people, to eggs, to queer people, to abuse survivors, to tv fans, to weird awkward kids, to nerds, to sad lesbians, to spouses of eggs, to Boygenius stans, to moon creatures, etc. But also??? If your primary takeaway from this is “Gosh, I would love The Pink Opaque,” first of all, congratulations on your relatively straightforward childhood, and second of all, YOU NEED TO GO AND FIND ISABEL SO WE CAN GET THE SIXTH SEASON PREMIERE
Janet Planet 2023

Watched 28 Jun 2024 19

When I was 13 or 14, my family took a long weekend trip to the Black Hills of South Dakota with a couple of other families we were close to. Ostensibly, the plan was to ride four-wheelers around the Hills, and I know we did some of that. What I most remember, however, were two realizations.
The first came one night as we waited for our names to come up on the waiting list at a restaurant in the small…

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