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was honestly worried going into this based off the mixed reviews, but having seen it now i’m happy to confirm that it was all an elaborate ploy by the Entity. ittedly a little messy towards the beginning but i can forgive some of the clunkier and more expository scenes when the rest of the movie is so propulsive and deranged and exciting. the big set-pieces here are as jaw-dropping and death-defying as anything else in these movies; i genuinely felt dizzy at a few points! had me fearing not just for Tom’s life but practically my own. wraps things up on a very moving and emotionally satisfying note, too. idk i loved it even if it’s ultimately in the lower tier of the series for me. i will miss these movies and i will miss being able to sit down in front of a big screen to watch this insane man with a death wish risk his life for our entertainment.

ahahaha yes!!! best one of the series. the funniest and sickest and most inspired these movies have been, feels like the most complete realization of what they can do with the premise. puts a fresh and inventive new spin on the formula while still sticking to what works. so many delightful gags in this one (honestly surprised it took them this long to do a falling piano bit). just a great time at the movies. perfect sendoff for Tony Todd too, made me emotional!

galaxy brained ending lmfao!!!

pom klementieff

the best one of these so far. fuses together the best elements of the first two and seals the deal with a genuinely great lead performance from Winstead. tanning bed/coffin match cut is an all-timer.

lacks the mood of the first film but more than makes up for it by just ramping up the sheer Looney Tunes absurdity of the deaths. had me cackling with delight. that final shot!

there should be more movies where the characters are named after classic horror filmmakers. also i spent the whole movie thinking her name was Claire only to find out afterwards that it’s actually “Clear”. Clear Rivers. why is she named Clear Rivers?? anyway this movie is awesome

“the things they do with special effects these days!” 

i’m a genius at different levels. different types of scientific political levels

“and just for a few hours, we was free.” 

[70mm]

“it’s like my eyes are open and i’m looking at you but i’m dead. they’ve pulled out whatever it was inside of me. it never hurt at all after that and it never will.”

pretty incredible and virtuosic to turn out something like this for your first (theatrically released) film. gotta say i think this Spielberg guy is going places.

i love my moms thelma and louise ❤️

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

“all the words are there, they’re just in the wrong order.” 

a perfect airport paperback yarn for a rainy day. bleak and dreary and impeccably crafted. loved it.

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

few things i love more than sleepy coastal small-town horror and this delivers on every front. immaculate vibes.

Watched on Monday May 5, 2025.

been over a week since i last watched a movie and this was exactly what i needed to get me out of the slump. an operatic, maximalist, psychedelic triumph of analog spectacle. so crazy that a movie can look this good. completely mesmerizing.

need time to sit with it, but it feels so fitting that this is what late-period Cronenberg’s reflection on grief and death would look like. strange, confounding, morbidly funny and melancholic. finds a disquietingly modern to explore technology, conspiracy, breaking down the body and flesh for the voyeuristic purpose of image-making. a key Cronenberg text. loved it.

we all have it coming.

[35mm]

“figures it’d be something like this.” 

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

god Walter Hill. a taut, mean, blisteringly tense work of backwoods swamp horror. last 15 minutes are astoundingly good.

oh my god i loved this SO much. had me absolutely buzzing from start to finish. an instant classic that reverberates with generations of history and music and folklore. exhilarating as a delirious blend of genres and tones, astonishing as a formal display of craft, overflowing with ideas and ambition from front to back. felt like i was dreaming as i left the theater. like it’s just so fucking cool that this is a movie that exists in this way — a vampire-gangster-western-musical with some of the most gorgeous use of the IMAX frame you’ll ever see like come ON!!! are you kidding me!!! already itching to see it again. i will be watching this a million more times. unreal.

double or nothing.

has a great ensemble and Kravitz has a solid eye behind the camera, but jesus this really shoots itself in the foot as it goes along. there are some genuinely interesting ideas on its mind, but what does it actually have to say about them? and the ending is so deeply misguided that it undoes practically any goodwill that had been built up to that point. yeesh!

“here’s the Remains of the Day lunchbox. kids don't like eating at school, but if they have a Remains of the Day lunchbox, they're a whole lot happier.” 

“she’s so refined. i think i’ll kill myself.” 

getting to see this on a beautiful print at my favorite theater with a huge enthusiastic crowd….simply one of the most euphoric things i’ll ever feel. movies!! 

[35mm]

movie about being transgender

perfect movie. spends much of the runtime as one of the most thoughtful and empathetic explorations of trauma i can think of, to the degree that the cathartic violence and exploitation almost just feels like a bonus. culminates in one of the most unforgettable finales i’ve ever seen. incredible all around.

[b’twixt now and sunrise]

was frequently unsure of whether or not this was working for me, i can’t say i connected with all of it, but it’s often mesmerizing and always fascinating. baffling and beautiful in equal measure. lands on some truly arresting and gorgeous dreamlike images in its digital experimentation, and it’s clearly a deeply personal project for Coppola in ways i ultimately found quite moving in the end. rest in peace Val.

perfect movie. i know i’m not the first to point it out but that one guy’s scream changing octaves as he gets his vocal cords ripped out is genuinely one of the gnarliest and most upsetting things i’ve ever seen. also Bub is my best friend. i love Bub.

finally got to cross off a rite of age and see this on the big screen. i know it’s basic and boring to be like “goodfellas is the best movie” but then i sit down and watch it and like yeah who am i kidding. it basically is the best one. god marty, god thelma, god lorraine bracco.

Watched on Tuesday March 25, 2025.

stars beginning to fade
and i lead the parade
just a-wishin’ i’d stayed a little longer…

seen with the icon Barbara Crampton in person!!! one of the best movies, so glad to see it with a crowd. perfect all around.

the rhythm of the night.

one of the coolest, most electric things i’ve seen recently. so immaculately crafted and beautifully composed that i just want to study every frame from top to bottom. tailor-made directly to my sensibilities. incredible!

yessss i loved this!! so smart, sleek, sexy, and fun. Soderbergh in his element, electric performances, gets right out at 90 minutes. not much more i could ask for. delightful!!

“who do you feel sorry for? us or yourself?” 

a film that contains the entire world inside of it. we come to know these women so intimately over the span of years that it feels like we’ve spent a whole lifetime with them. such a rich, beautiful, fully realized portrait of womanhood and friendship. happy international women’s day 💕

“i wish i could sing.” 

god ryuichi sakamoto.

if you’re not all in on Late Paul i’m not quite sure if you’ll get much out of this, but as an acolyte, i loved this and found it very affecting. a hazy, contemplative, formally inventive rumination on memory and regret. clearly a deeply personal project for Paul in ways that i think are quite rewarding. great soundtrack too. happy to finally get around to this.

the fact that Joan Micklin Silver didn’t have a bigger career is a genuine crime. this is such a made-for-me movie and it’s crazy that i hadn’t even heard of it until a couple weeks ago. a hangout workplace comedy set at a Boston newspaper in the ‘70s with Jeff Goldblum and Bruno Kirby and John Heard?? nobody told me about this?? anyway this is so good. instantly fell in love with the camaraderie between these reporters. so funny and shaggy and wonderful.

watched this while i was a little too tired but the fact i was drifting in and out of sleep only added to the experience. a ghostly, haunted masterwork.

“right now, you're just browsing through time. choose the things you'll be proud of. things that last.” 

Watched on Friday February 28, 2025.

loved this! i’m always amazed by the humanity and life in Demme’s films. such a warm, wonderful slice of Americana.

devastating movie. very very good, the cumulative effect of this is incredibly sobering and harrowing. Fernanda Torres is as astonishing as everyone’s been saying.

1. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
2. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
3. Mission: Impossible
4. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
5. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
6. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
7. Mission: Impossible II
8. Mission: Impossible III

1. Sinners
2. Eephus
3. The Shrouds
4. Black Bag
5. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
6. Sorry, Baby
7. Final Destination Bloodlines
8. Mickey 17
9. Presence
10. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera

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• Licorice Pizza
• Boogie Nights
• Oppenheimer
• All That Heaven Allows
• Evil Dead II
• Thief
• The Holdovers
• Phantom Thread
• The Matrix
• The Matrix Reloaded

...plus 49 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. GoodFellas
2. Silence
3. The Irishman
4. The Age of Innocence
5. Killers of the Flower Moon
6. Taxi Driver
7. Casino
8. After Hours
9. The Wolf of Wall Street
10. Raging Bull

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1. I Saw the TV Glow
2. Nickel Boys
3. The Beast
4. Challengers
5. Janet Planet
6. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
7. The Brutalist
8. La Chimera
9. Anora
10. Evil Does Not Exist

...plus 67 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Phantom Thread
2. Inherent Vice
3. Punch-Drunk Love
4. Licorice Pizza
5. Boogie Nights
6. There Will Be Blood
7. The Master
8. Magnolia
9. Hard Eight

alphabetical, not ranked; feature films only

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• Alien
• All That Jazz
• The Apartment
• Apocalypse Now
• Barry Lyndon
• Before Sunset

  stand-in for the whole trilogy

• Blow Out
• Blue Velvet

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1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
2. Mulholland Drive
3. Blue Velvet
4. Inland Empire
5. The Straight Story
6. Lost Highway
7. Eraserhead
8. Wild at Heart
9. The Elephant Man
10. Dune

1. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2. Jaws
3. The Fabelmans
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Schindler's List
6. War of the Worlds
7. Jurassic Park
8. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
9. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
10. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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1. Alien
2. Aliens
3. Alien: Covenant
4. Prometheus
5. Alien³
6. Alien: Romulus
7. Alien Resurrection

1. Heat
2. Miami Vice
3. Manhunter
4. Thief
5. The Insider
6. Collateral
7. Blackhat
8. The Last of the Mohicans
9. Ferrari
10. Ali

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1. Killers of the Flower Moon
2. Oppenheimer
3. The Boy and the Heron
4. John Wick: Chapter 4
5. The Zone of Interest
6. Asteroid City
7. Ferrari
8. May December
9. The Holdovers
10. Showing Up

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1. Titanic
2. The Abyss
3. Aliens
4. The Terminator
5. Avatar: The Way of Water
6. True Lies
7. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
8. Avatar

1. Oppenheimer
2. Interstellar
3. Tenet
4. The Prestige
5. Dunkirk
6. Memento
7. Inception
8. The Dark Knight
9. The Dark Knight Rises
10. Batman Begins

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1. Oppenheimer
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. The Zone of Interest
4. The Holdovers
5. Anatomy of a Fall
6. Past Lives
7. Poor Things
8. Barbie
9. American Fiction
10. Maestro

1. Zodiac
2. The Social Network
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4. Gone Girl
5. The Game
6. Se7en
7. The Killer
8. Fight Club
9. Panic Room
10. Mank

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1. The Fabelmans
2. TÁR
3. Nope
4. Aftersun
5. Avatar: The Way of Water
6. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
7. Babylon
8. Decision to Leave
9. Crimes of the Future
10. Top Gun: Maverick

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1. Licorice Pizza
2. Drive My Car
3. Titane
4. The Worst Person in the World
5. The French Dispatch
6. West Side Story
7. The Matrix Resurrections
8. Dune
9. Pig
10. Malignant

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1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. Asteroid City
3. The French Dispatch
4. The Grand Budapest Hotel
5. Moonrise Kingdom
6. Rushmore
7. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
8. Fantastic Mr. Fox
9. Bottle Rocket
10. The Darjeeling Limited

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1. Blow Out
2. Body Double
3. Carrie
4. Carlito's Way
5. Mission: Impossible
6. Dressed to Kill
7. Scarface
8. The Untouchables

1. Nashville
2. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
3. The Long Goodbye
4. The Player
5. California Split
6. 3 Women
7. M*A*S*H

1. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2. Jackie Brown
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Death Proof
7. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
8. The Hateful Eight
9. Reservoir Dogs
10. Django Unchained

1. The Fabelmans
2. TÁR
3. Avatar: The Way of Water
4. Top Gun: Maverick
5. The Banshees of Inisherin
6. Everything Everywhere All at Once
7. Elvis
8. Women Talking
9. Triangle of Sadness
10. All Quiet on the Western Front

1. Out of Sight
2. Ocean's Twelve
3. Solaris
4. sex, lies, and videotape
5. Ocean's Eleven
6. The Limey
7. Contagion
8. Logan Lucky
9. Magic Mike
10. No Sudden Move

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1. Mulholland Drive
2. In the Mood for Love
3. Miami Vice
4. Yi Yi
5. The New World
6. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
7. Before Sunset
8. Spirited Away
9. Zodiac
10. 25th Hour

1. The Tree of Life
2. Phantom Thread
3. Inherent Vice
4. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
5. Carol
6. The Irishman
7. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
8. Inside Llewyn Davis
9. The Social Network
10. First Reformed

1. The Thing
2. Halloween
3. Prince of Darkness
4. Escape from New York
5. Christine
6. Assault on Precinct 13
7. The Fog

1. Eyes Wide Shut
2. Barry Lyndon
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. The Shining
5. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
6. Paths of Glory
7. Full Metal Jacket
8. The Killing

1. Dazed and Confused
2. Before Sunset
3. Before Sunrise
4. Before Midnight
5. Everybody Wants Some!!
6. Boyhood
7. School of Rock
8. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood

1. Do the Right Thing
2. Blue Velvet
3. The Thing
4. Stop Making Sense
5. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
6. Manhunter
7. Raging Bull
8. Paris, Texas
9. Blow Out
10. Prince of Darkness

1. Do the Right Thing
2. Malcolm X
3. David Byrne's American Utopia
4. BlacKkKlansman
5. Da 5 Bloods
6. He Got Game
7. Inside Man
8. Clockers

1. Vertigo
2. North by Northwest
3. Rear Window
4. Psycho
5. Marnie
6. Shadow of a Doubt
7. To Catch a Thief
8. Rope
9. The Birds
10. Strangers on a Train

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1. Inside Llewyn Davis
2. The Big Lebowski
3. No Country for Old Men
4. Miller's Crossing
5. Fargo
6. Blood Simple
7. Raising Arizona
8. True Grit
9. Burn After Reading
10. The Tragedy of Macbeth

1. Alien
2. Blade Runner
3. Thelma & Louise
4. The Last Duel
5. Black Hawk Down
6. The Martian
7. American Gangster
8. Gladiator
9. House of Gucci

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
2. Mirror
3. Mulholland Drive
4. In the Mood for Love
5. Solaris
6. Blue Velvet
7. Barry Lyndon
8. The New World
9. O.J.: Made in America
10. Miami Vice

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1. Mirror
2. Taxi Driver
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Solaris
5. Halloween
6. Barry Lyndon
7. Picnic at Hanging Rock
8. Chinatown
9. The Godfather Part II
10. Jaws

1. Apocalypse Now
2. The Godfather Part II
3. The Godfather
4. The Conversation
5. The Godfather Part III
6. The Outsiders