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i know everything about film. i’ve seen over 240 of them.

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  • The Straight Story
  • The Elephant Man
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Twin Peaks: The Return

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  • A Real Pain

    ★★★★

  • The Invisible Man Returns

    ★★½

  • Roy Wood Jr.: Lonely Flowers

    ★★★

  • Shoot the Piano Player

    ★★★

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  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain 2024

    ★★★★ Watched 21 Jan 2025

    very very very good. not perfect (the sundance-y energy is a bit much at times imo) but my god kieran culkin is fucking celestial.

  • The Invisible Man Returns

    The Invisible Man Returns 1940

    ★★½ Watched 21 Jan 2025

    if there’s one constant in these universal monster movies it’s an endless parade of bumbling cops with comical now-see-‘ere-guvnor accents. this one has so many of them. it’s avengers: endgame for mustachioed english coppers who like to say “what’s all this then?” before being bopped on the head with their own truncheon. the movie is basically a softer, gentler retread of the original invisible man without the acid of claude rains’ maniacal griffin or the grimly elegant humor of james whale’s direction. a…

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  • Juror #2

    Juror #2 2024

    ★★★★ Watched 20 Jan 2025

    a movie explicitly made for whiners like me who enjoy complaining that they don’t make ‘em like they used to anymore. well, apparently sometimes they still do make ‘em like they used to!! not a schlocky thriller but a movie about actual well-rounded characters caught in an impossible dilemma! almost fetishistically old-fashioned in its approach without ever feeling stodgy. both propulsive and deliberate in its pacing, a neat trick. clint eastwood is a famously very old man but he’s still…

  • Jurassic Park

    Jurassic Park 1993

    ★★★★½ Rewatched 26 Feb 2024 2

    this isn’t a movie, it’s steven spielberg putting on a clinic in how to make a smart, scary special effects blockbuster that’s aimed at the widest possible audience without sacrificing the slightest bit of wit or craft. the dinosaurs are still dizzyingly real after all these years, to the point where they make modern CG beasties look like so many rampaging pixels. the jeep attack and the velociraptors stalking the kids through the kitchen are both automatic classics of masterfully…

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  • Challengers
  • A Different Man
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Wicked
  • James Acaster: Hecklers Welcome

2024 33 films

  • Bride of Frankenstein
  • Frankenstein
  • The Invisible Man
  • Dracula
  • Son of Frankenstein

Universal Monsters 9 films

  • Fantasia
  • Pinocchio
  • The Philadelphia Story
  • Rebecca
  • The Shop Around the Corner

1940 12 films

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