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Favorite films

  • The Sweet East
  • Spencer
  • Melancholia
  • Her Smell

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  • Friendship

    ★★★★

  • Caught by the Tides

    ★★★

  • Final Destination Bloodlines

    ★★★

  • Final Destination 5

    ★★★½

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The Encampments

2025

★★★★ Liked 2

An of one of this generation's most fervent sociopolitical moments, told with a proportionately fervent cinematic voice. Does an excellent job at counteracting the mainstream narratives regarding antisemitism on college campuses—which was always bullshit—as well as other apocryphal perceptions about the Palestinian youth movement.

It is worth mentioning that SFSU was the first ever university to successfully divest from Israeli weapons manufacturing. The first of many, god willing. Direct action works.

No Other Land

2024

Liked Watched

A firsthand exposé on absolute evil.

An air of despondency filled the theater as the credits rolled. After several minutes of collective speechlessness, applause finally broke out. I've seen a handful of heavy films in theaters over the years, both fiction and nonfiction, but I've never experienced a crowd reaction quite like the one I witnessed tonight.

As did Alain Resnais' Night and Fog, No Other Land will someday go down in film history as an essential documentation of a…

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Friendship

2024

★★★★ Liked Watched

"You all accepted me way too fast, you can't do that! You made me feel too free."

The insanely rare film that features both some of the year's funniest scenes and some of the year's scariest scenes.

Kind of a litmus test for empathy. There is clearly so much wrong with Craig, but if you can watch this and still resent him because of his issues, then you aren't really interested in seeing him improve. I don't think it would…

Caught by the Tides

2024

★★★ Watched

I suppose this must be a really fascinating narrative experiment for those who are already highly invested in Jia Zhangke's filmography, but otherwise, it's too impersonal and arbitrary to leave any emotional impact.

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Warfare

2025

★★ 662

Why did Alex Garland make this film? And why did A24 choose to distribute it?

I felt it was necessary for me to attend an advance screening of this film in order to get ahead of the discourse. I thought that Alex Garland's Civil War was actually an incredibly visceral portrayal of war that benefited—not suffered—from its ahistorical setting. But like everyone else, I was very apprehensive about this film when its trailer first dropped. Still, I gave Garland the…

Heroin(e)

2017

★★★★ Liked Watched

The ending is such a subtle stun—right back where we started. And the cycle just continues. Fuck.

In what feels like fifteen minutes, this contains more warmth, bleakness, and beauty than most films manage to do in two hours.