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2022

Watched 15 May 2026

Gosh dang it, I was this kid at one point, I’m certain of it.

Lawrence is really annoying, but he also wants to be understood. He keeps trying to find ways to make himself seem bigger because he’s so uncomfortable in his own skin, and almost none of it works. I was so frustrated with him because I’ve been this guy and I wish I wasn’t, but I grew out of it…maybe?

This is very good, but I did not like looking in the mirror.

The Visitor

1979

Watched 27 May 2026

An extremely strange movie that delights in its strangeness, but at the same time very fun. I couldn’t follow whole parts of this, but I also don’t think I was supposed to, and John Huston was having the time of his life.

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Nursery Rhymes

2018

Watched 23 Sep 2019 1

The first minute and a half of this I thought it was going to go one way, and then the next three minutes it went another. For me, that’s an accomplishment with a short - to be so absolutely surprised by its direction. What at first seems to be drunken ramblings are something else entirely. The simple camera work here in particular was something to marvel at - I can’t imagine how long it took to get this nearly continuous shot. Loved this.

Marriage Story

2019

Watched 07 Dec 2019

This to me is a master work because it feels so realistic - both of the main characters here have so much life and history to them that I almost feel like it’s OK that we don’t really get much of a portrait of their marriage despite the title. I say almost because it does feel to me at times that the strings are being pulled a little too hard for Adam Driver’s Charlie - we are told how Scarlett…