{"version":1,"title":"Lenny Chen — Content index","url":"https://lennyc.me/","feeds":{"blog":"https://lennyc.me/rss.xml","reviews":"https://lennyc.me/reviews.json","sitemap":"https://lennyc.me/sitemap-index.xml"},"entries":[{"title":"Lenny Chen","description":"I'm Lenny Chen, an SF Bay Area-based writer, developer, and amateur film reviewer.","type":"page","url":"https://lennyc.me/"},{"title":"About","description":"About Lenny Chen, a technical documentarian and film reviewer.","type":"page","url":"https://lennyc.me/about/"},{"title":"Work","description":"Technical writing samples and documentation tooling.","type":"page","url":"https://lennyc.me/work/"},{"title":"Blog","description":"Personal and technical writing by Lenny Chen.","type":"page","url":"https://lennyc.me/blog/"},{"title":"Film reviews","description":"Film ratings and reviews by Lenny Chen, pulled from Letterboxd.","type":"page","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/"},{"title":"Fingies","description":"A random finger chooser: put your fingers down and let fate pick one.","type":"page","url":"https://lennyc.me/chooser/"},{"type":"blog","title":"To have, or not to have, a professional blog?","description":"Personal reflection on my latent desire to have authenticity protect me economically, why it probably won't happen and that's okay. 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Palette is your BFG for secure edge Kubernetes apps","description":"Deploying the classic 1993 FPS on Kubernetes edge devices with Palette, and learning about pod security along the way.","url":"https://lennyc.me/blog/can-it-run-doom/","markdownUrl":"https://lennyc.me/blog/can-it-run-doom.md","publishedAt":"2024-06-18T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["kubernetes","edge","palette"]},{"type":"review","title":"Club Kid (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/club-kid-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/club-kid/","filmTitle":"Club Kid","filmYear":2026,"rating":3.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-11-13","description":"This review may contain spoilers. I knew Jordan Firstman first from I Love LA, and then from the little scuffle that he got into with the Heated Rivalry creators and cast. From those moments I had some idea about the kind of queer stories h"},{"type":"review","title":"The Christophers (2025)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/the-christophers-2025/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/the-christophers/","filmTitle":"The Christophers","filmYear":2025,"rating":3.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-11-12","description":"Making art is such a poignant endeavor. The final piece you put out is a product of your technique, vision, emotion, story, and really a piece of your soul. Everyone can critique it, and yet no one but the artist themself can know what went"},{"type":"review","title":"Wild Horse Nine (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/wild-horse-nine-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/wild-horse-nine/","filmTitle":"Wild Horse Nine","filmYear":2026,"rating":4,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-11-07","description":"This review may contain spoilers. 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Beautiful, heartbreaking, and erotic, this is truly a queer epic that we rarely get to see on screen. First of all, I must emphasize how hot this movie was especially in the first half. You really get to se"},{"type":"review","title":"Wicker (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/wicker-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/wicker/","filmTitle":"Wicker","filmYear":2026,"rating":3,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-10-25","description":"This review may contain spoilers. Quirky, whimsical, if a bit overtly cynical, Wicker is an entertaining adventure full of quippy one-liners, though I’m not sure how I feel about what it appears to say about love. Wicker man’s says he fixed"},{"type":"review","title":"Lady (2025)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/lady-2025/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/lady-2025/","filmTitle":"Lady","filmYear":2025,"rating":4,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-10-24","description":"This was delectable. Isabella is a little bit of Claire from Fleabag (and fleabag herself honestly), a little bit of Valerie Cherish, and a little bit of Moira Rose. Just most fun to watch. Insecurity was on my mind a lot during my viewing "},{"type":"review","title":"Klara and the Sun (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/klara-and-the-sun-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/klara-and-the-sun/","filmTitle":"Klara and the Sun","filmYear":2026,"rating":2.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-10-22","description":"This wasn’t terrible as the Rotten Tomatoes score would have you believe, but it did not fully succeed in translating the magic from the book. Sometimes I think Taika Waititi sabotages himself too much, or maybe this is just the only way he"},{"type":"review","title":"You Can See Everything (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/you-can-see-everything-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/you-can-see-everything/","filmTitle":"You Can See Everything","filmYear":2026,"rating":4.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-10-19","description":"This review may contain spoilers. (Spoiler warning! Literally go see this at your earliest convenience if you haven’t already) I am blown away. What the actual fuck. This is the most mesmerizing, hilarious, and emotionally scintillating cin"},{"type":"review","title":"Primetime (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/primetime-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/primetime-2026/","filmTitle":"Primetime","filmYear":2026,"rating":3.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-10-05","description":"Striking that in a movie about catching pedophiles, the pedophiles themselves are not the ones creeping you out. At the end of the day, even the most morally repugnant perversion, when regulated by shame, is still less sinister than sadism "},{"type":"review","title":"Saving Face (2004)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/saving-face-2004/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/saving-face/","filmTitle":"Saving Face","filmYear":2004,"rating":4,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-10-04","description":"Intimate, serene, and rich both in theme and narrative. I enjoyed this so much. Between The Wedding Banquet in 1993 and this in 2004, it's kind of comforting to know that while we didn't always have good amount of representation, we've had "},{"type":"review","title":"Verity (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/verity-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/verity-2026/","filmTitle":"Verity","filmYear":2026,"rating":2,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-10-03","description":"Unfortunately this was bad. Highly questionable choices that were made in nearly every aspect of storytelling, together with the most cringeworthy ending sequences I’ve seen all year. Waiting until streaming is advised unless you have AMC A"},{"type":"review","title":"Dear You (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/dear-you-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/dear-you-2026/","filmTitle":"Dear You","filmYear":2026,"rating":4.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-09-28","description":"This review may contain spoilers. Throughout college and my early post-school years, I always considered Mary and Max my favorite film of all time. A couple of weeks ago I talked to someone about how I felt like I've started to outgrow that"},{"type":"review","title":"Coyote vs. Acme (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/coyote-vs-acme-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/coyote-vs-acme/","filmTitle":"Coyote vs. Acme","filmYear":2026,"rating":3.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-09-20","description":"From the premise to the execution, Coyote vs Acme is relentlessly entertaining and fiercely creative, full of witty one-liners and a surprising amount of heart. I highly recommend. I didn’t grow up with Looney Tunes, so I watched about half"},{"type":"review","title":"Resident Evil (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/resident-evil-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/resident-evil-2026/","filmTitle":"Resident Evil","filmYear":2026,"rating":3,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-09-19","description":"I had completely forgotten that they have tried to make this film franchise before and I had seen almost every single one. This was the first time I had seen one after having played a few of the games though. I don’t recall if the previous "},{"type":"review","title":"Battle Royale (2000)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/battle-royale-2000/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/battle-royale/","filmTitle":"Battle Royale","filmYear":2000,"rating":3,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-09-16","description":"Inspired by my recent Hunger Games rewatch to finally see this. I had been under the impression this entire time that the Hunger Games series was inspired by Battle Royale, but after watching this I realized that's not the case and they exp"},{"type":"review","title":"After Life (1998)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/after-life-1998/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/after-life/","filmTitle":"After Life","filmYear":1998,"rating":4.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-09-08","description":"This is another one of those \"has this already been talked about extensively and I'm just 28?\" moments. At the end of last year I saw Eternity, and I thought it was such an original and fresh premise. Not that Eternity doesn't add nuance, b"},{"type":"review","title":"Practical Magic (1998)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/practical-magic-1998/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/practical-magic/","filmTitle":"Practical Magic","filmYear":1998,"rating":3,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-09-07","description":"Takeaways: 1. Never hide who you are to solve a relationship problem. 2. Quality friendships are durable objects that survive fights, distance and time apart. They also heal wounds. Lean on them liberally and be there for them unreservedly."},{"type":"review","title":"Slanted (2025)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/slanted-2025/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/slanted/","filmTitle":"Slanted","filmYear":2025,"rating":2,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-09-05","description":"I know this is supposed to be satire, but it’s so completely enveloped in cringe that viewing is an utterly unpleasant experience. If the comparison is to The Substance, this is not close unfortunately. Many of the allegories used don’t ful"},{"type":"review","title":"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-2013/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/the-hunger-games-catching-fire/","filmTitle":"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire","filmYear":2013,"rating":3.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-09-04","description":"Caught this one in theaters with a friend who is really passionate about The Hunger Games series. It’s been at least 10 years since I last saw this film. I had written off a lot of franchise movies I had seen in my teen years as profit seek"},{"type":"review","title":"Coherence (2013)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/coherence-2013/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/coherence/","filmTitle":"Coherence","filmYear":2013,"rating":4.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-08-29","description":"Decided to do a double feature with this after watching The End of Oak Street. I watched this film over the pandemic and it has stayed with me since then. I have wanted to rewatch rewatch this for a very long time but have always been too s"},{"type":"review","title":"The End of Oak Street (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/the-end-of-oak-street-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/the-end-of-oak-street/","filmTitle":"The End of Oak Street","filmYear":2026,"rating":3,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-08-29","description":"Extremely campy and irreverent movie. Scattered throughout this organized chaos of a film is enough laughter and heart that will keep you entertained. I do recommend. (The rest of the review contains spoilers) Early in the film they establi"},{"type":"review","title":"Clue (1985)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/clue-1985/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/clue/","filmTitle":"Clue","filmYear":1985,"rating":2,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-08-28","description":"I was expecting a well-crafted classic whodunit from the 80s, and this ended up being very different from what I was expecting. I can’t say I enjoyed this. Most of my frustration probably came from mismatched expectations. The film starts w"},{"type":"review","title":"Shoplifters (2018)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/shoplifters-2018/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/shoplifters/","filmTitle":"Shoplifters","filmYear":2018,"rating":4,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-08-13","description":"I might have watched this film in 2018 when it came out, but I definitely didn’t have the capacity to appreciate it then. This is a moving and complicated story about being misfits in Japan: what society does to them, how they cope, and wha"},{"type":"review","title":"My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/my-neighbors-the-yamadas-1999/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/my-neighbors-the-yamadas/","filmTitle":"My Neighbors the Yamadas","filmYear":1999,"rating":3.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-08-01","description":"This may be the first time I've seen a slice-of-life film in an animated format, and there is no better way to do it than in the uniquely quaint, dreamy and whimsical art style of this 1999 film. This film really shows off the narrative and"},{"type":"review","title":"I Want Your Sex (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/i-want-your-sex-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/i-want-your-sex/","filmTitle":"I Want Your Sex","filmYear":2026,"rating":3,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-07-30","description":"I did not go to Dore last weekend, so the universe planned for me to get my dose of kink exposure through this film. I Want Your Sex is like Baby Girl meets Pillion. It’s packed with belly laugh moments and witty irreverent commentary about"},{"type":"review","title":"Persona (1966)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/persona-1966/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/persona/","filmTitle":"Persona","filmYear":1966,"rating":null,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-07-23","description":"I think I need to rewatch this film, maybe with some help from Adderall, to better absorb it. There is no understanding this film. That much is obvious from the first watch. It’s very unclear what happens at all or whether Alma and Elisabet"},{"type":"review","title":"12 Angry Men (1957)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/12-angry-men-1957/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/12-angry-men/","filmTitle":"12 Angry Men","filmYear":1957,"rating":4.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-07-22","description":"In grad school, one of my program's professors had a class on Leadership™️. Every semester she taught this class, she would spend one lecture on leadership lessons™️ exhibited by characters in film. The cohort before us watched 12 Angry Men"},{"type":"review","title":"Babe (1995)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/babe-1995/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/babe/","filmTitle":"Babe","filmYear":1995,"rating":4,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-07-19","description":"I almost didn't watch this today because I said I was going to try to catch the World Cup Final, which I thought started at 3 PM, when it was 3 PM EST, so by the time I wanted to start it, the match was basically done. I therefore put this "},{"type":"review","title":"Marie Antoinette (2006)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/marie-antoinette-2006/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/marie-antoinette-2006/","filmTitle":"Marie Antoinette","filmYear":2006,"rating":3.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-07-17","description":"I watched this during recovery from a surgery that has left me unable to breathe through my nose for a week. I badly needed something frivolous, yet able to confer meaning through its whimsical randomness. Marie Antoinnette delivered. The w"},{"type":"review","title":"The Invite (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/the-invite-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/the-invite-2026/","filmTitle":"The Invite","filmYear":2026,"rating":4,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-07-04","description":"What a recovery for Olivia Wilde after Don’t Worry Darling. The Invite is a deeply delicious treat packed with sharp writing, tension, and belly-laugh moments. I highly recommend. The simplicity is probably what made the difference. Don’t W"},{"type":"review","title":"Toy Story 5 (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/toy-story-5-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/toy-story-5/","filmTitle":"Toy Story 5","filmYear":2026,"rating":3.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-06-28","description":"When Toy Story 4 came out in 2019, I remember being very skeptical, but decided that it was more than good enough to justify its existence. 7 years later, I feel the same way about Toy Story 5. If you liked the the first four movies, this o"},{"type":"review","title":"Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/teenage-sex-and-death-at-camp-miasma-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/teenage-sex-and-death-at-camp-miasma/","filmTitle":"Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma","filmYear":2026,"rating":4,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-06-28","description":"This is an unapologetically creative and self-obsessed film. Very much more on the vibe-based side, trying to engage you beyond a conscious level than telling a tight story. Despite that it is cohesive, entertaining, and deeply hilarious. I"},{"type":"review","title":"Leviticus (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/leviticus-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/leviticus-2026/","filmTitle":"Leviticus","filmYear":2026,"rating":4,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-06-23","description":"I was not ready for this. When I heard about this “pray the gay away” queer horror premiering during pride month, I was expecting a light-hearted campy film more in the vein of Bodies Bodies Bodies. Instead this was immensely heavy and prof"},{"type":"review","title":"Contact (1997)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/contact-1997/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/contact/1/","filmTitle":"Contact","filmYear":1997,"rating":5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-06-22","description":"Watching Disclosure Day last week made me want to revisit this. This rewatch, and comparing it with the alien movies we got this century, including the good ones like Arrival, only reaffirmed for me that this film is peak sci-fi, unbelievab"},{"type":"review","title":"Girls Like Girls (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/girls-like-girls-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/girls-like-girls/","filmTitle":"Girls Like Girls","filmYear":2026,"rating":null,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-06-19","description":"This was cute. I somehow don’t feel like giving a star rating is even appropriate here because this feels like a situation where someone took a risk and put herself out there creatively. Last month I went to Bodega bay with friends over Mem"},{"type":"review","title":"The Furious (2025)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/the-furious-2025/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/the-furious/","filmTitle":"The Furious","filmYear":2025,"rating":3,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-06-15","description":"This was delightfully unhinged. If you loosen up a bit, which the movie will force you to even if you aren’t so inclined, it could be a great experience. The fight choreography of this film is actually out of this world. Intentional or not,"},{"type":"review","title":"Disclosure Day (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/disclosure-day-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/disclosure-day/","filmTitle":"Disclosure Day","filmYear":2026,"rating":3,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-06-14","description":"First off, the good stuff. This was an engaging film with great production value. It keeps tension well throughout its very long runtime. Everyone’s acting is online. The score is great. It's a good movie that is worth watching. It could ha"},{"type":"review","title":"Backrooms (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/backrooms-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/backrooms-2026/","filmTitle":"Backrooms","filmYear":2026,"rating":2.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-06-11","description":"This was an ambitious project that managed to be deeply disconcerting, but struggled to be coherent left me unsatisfied in the end. I feel like the vision is there, and maybe the director just needs a bit more experience to execute somethin"},{"type":"review","title":"Masters of the Universe (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/masters-of-the-universe-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/masters-of-the-universe-2026/","filmTitle":"Masters of the Universe","filmYear":2026,"rating":1,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-06-06","description":"I was lured here by that ridiculous abs-forward trailer so I guess I deserved it. This was barely watchable - worse even than the Mario Galaxy movie. Why start a bunch of silly bits if you’ll just end up committing to nothing? It’s okay to "},{"type":"review","title":"What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/what-ever-happened-to-baby-jane-1962/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/what-ever-happened-to-baby-jane/","filmTitle":"What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?","filmYear":1962,"rating":3.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-06-05","description":"I will say this is the first film during this classic kick of mine that didn't quite meet my expectations. I had heard of this film for quite some time, ever since I heard about the TV show Feud (2017) back in college. I didn't watch Feud, "},{"type":"review","title":"I Love Boosters (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/i-love-boosters-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/i-love-boosters/","filmTitle":"I Love Boosters","filmYear":2026,"rating":3.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-06-04","description":"An audacious, fun and maximalist film. 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Partly because my expectations were genuinely on the floor, and partl"},{"type":"review","title":"Dead to Rights (2025)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/dead-to-rights-2025/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/dead-to-rights-2025/","filmTitle":"Dead to Rights","filmYear":2025,"rating":4.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-05-18","description":"My reviews generally have too much levity to discuss this. Gonna have be a diary entry for this one."},{"type":"review","title":"Top Gun (1986)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/top-gun-1986/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/top-gun/","filmTitle":"Top Gun","filmYear":1986,"rating":1.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-05-17","description":"Caught this at its 40th anniversary for the first time. Hard to overstate how much I hated this. How was this made in the same era as Die Hard and be this unserious (and not in a self-ware way)? 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(2002)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/adaptation-2002/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/adaptation/","filmTitle":"Adaptation.","filmYear":2002,"rating":4.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-04-11","description":"Six years ago during the height of the pandemic, I watched Becoming John Malkovich under the heavy influence of substances, unsure if the film was really that trippy or I was merely having a stroke, but certain that I was witnessing somethi"},{"type":"review","title":"28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/28-years-later-the-bone-temple-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/28-years-later-the-bone-temple/","filmTitle":"28 Years Later: The Bone Temple","filmYear":2026,"rating":2.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-04-07","description":"Missed this one in the theaters and only catching up now. This sequel didn't feel impressionable to me. While 28 Years Later set up poetic themes that felt fresh to me last year, this sequel building on those themes felts like a regression."},{"type":"review","title":"The Drama (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/the-drama-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/the-drama/","filmTitle":"The Drama","filmYear":2026,"rating":4,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-04-03","description":"Razor-sharp, hilarious, and wonderfully daft, The Drama may be the best romcom for the mentally ill since Silver Linings Playbook. I had a lot of fun. It’s often said that you shouldn’t judge someone by the worst thing they’ve done. 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Its lack of plot is only overshadowed by its desperation to cram in one more easter egg that does not fit in this oversat"},{"type":"review","title":"Wake Up Dead Man (2025)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/wake-up-dead-man-2025/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/wake-up-dead-man/","filmTitle":"Wake Up Dead Man","filmYear":2025,"rating":3.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-03-29","description":"A year ago I watched Conclave and said that the Catholic heart of the film did not not reach me. Well, after laying with a 27-year-old Catholic priest in New York last June, I think I have changed. I really dig this movie. 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I’ve lost so much context to evaluate these things in kept vacillating between “yikes this is terr"},{"type":"review","title":"Dìdi (弟弟) (2024)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/d-di-2024/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/didi-2024/","filmTitle":"Dìdi (弟弟)","filmYear":2024,"rating":3.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-03-08","description":"Predictably, just like every other time I’ve watched a film about a first generation Asian American story, I ended up empathizing more with the immigrant parents than the child. Chris felt like a massive brat the entire movie. Though as muc"},{"type":"review","title":"Hoppers (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/hoppers-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/hoppers/","filmTitle":"Hoppers","filmYear":2026,"rating":3,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-03-07","description":"Hoppers is funny, and light-hearted, but at the end of the day juvenile. The conflicts in this film were so existential and its resolution so hand-wavey, that the supposedly unifying message only rings hollow. The suspension of disbelief re"},{"type":"review","title":"Sentimental Value (2025)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/sentimental-value-2025/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/sentimental-value-2025/","filmTitle":"Sentimental Value","filmYear":2025,"rating":null,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-03-05","description":"Watched this on a plane. Fully acknowledge that I did not pay full attention and honestly just did not care enough about these characters to do so. The ensemble seems cool but the emotional core of it fully escaped me."},{"type":"review","title":"Train Dreams (2025)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/train-dreams-2025/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/train-dreams/","filmTitle":"Train Dreams","filmYear":2025,"rating":3,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-03-05","description":"Yes, I am doing last-minute catchup of the oscar nominees before the ceremony happening in 10 days. I will be posting about what I think should win in the coming days and this will be another test of whether the Academy has good taste after"},{"type":"review","title":"Blue Moon (2025)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/blue-moon-2025/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/blue-moon-2025/","filmTitle":"Blue Moon","filmYear":2025,"rating":3.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-03-02","description":"What an odd little film. Throughout history there were greats whose work was so immense that we overlooked their (sometimes egregious) flaws because their work proved more timeless than their personhood. We never think about those who didn'"},{"type":"review","title":"The Housemaid (2025)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/the-housemaid-2025/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/the-housemaid-2025/","filmTitle":"The Housemaid","filmYear":2025,"rating":2.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-02-24","description":"This was engaging, but at the end of the day overlong and had too many missed opportunities. Amanda carried this film. She delivered both the terrifying freak and the overwhelmed housewife with aplomb. Sydney Sweeney on the other hand, gave"},{"type":"review","title":"Pillion (2025)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/pillion-2025/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/pillion-2025/","filmTitle":"Pillion","filmYear":2025,"rating":3.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-02-19","description":"(mild spoiler warning) Dreamy, surreal, and hysterical, Pillion takes you on the steamiest romantic ride of your life, and then sits you down, ultimately uncoddling. More than anything it is a reminder that self-discovery often demands a lo"},{"type":"review","title":"Raising Arizona (1987)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/raising-arizona-1987/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/raising-arizona/","filmTitle":"Raising Arizona","filmYear":1987,"rating":3,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-02-16","description":"We spent our final night in Arizona watching this movie. It’s silly and whimsical, but quietly reflective as well. This must have been quite a radical film back in its time. While some of the ideas don’t feel quite as fresh anymore, they al"},{"type":"review","title":"The Moment (2026)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/the-moment-2026/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/the-moment-2026/","filmTitle":"The Moment","filmYear":2026,"rating":4,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-02-07","description":"I feel like I was mostly on the sidelines during brat summer in 2024, probably because my own oddity of mostly only enjoying music that you listen to while sitting still rather than music you can dance to. 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Instead relying on a well-conducted ensemble, this film full"},{"type":"review","title":"Paddington 2 (2017)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/paddington-2-2017/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/paddington-2/","filmTitle":"Paddington 2","filmYear":2017,"rating":3.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-01-25","description":"It's been said that within the Paddington franchise, the first and third movies are perfectly entertaining flicks, while Paddington 2 is a genuinely good film. After this viewing, I agree: this film is much stronger than the other two both "},{"type":"review","title":"If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/if-i-had-legs-i-d-kick-you-2025/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you/","filmTitle":"If I Had Legs I'd Kick You","filmYear":2025,"rating":4,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-01-16","description":"Unrelenting and suffocating, this new mom-gone-crazy film transports you into this venomous state of despair, frustration, rumination and supreme irritability by asking two questions: “what’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to you?” an"},{"type":"review","title":"No Other Choice (2025)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/no-other-choice-2025/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/no-other-choice-2025/","filmTitle":"No Other Choice","filmYear":2025,"rating":4.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-01-13","description":"Knowing that the premise of the film is about a man deciding to murder all other competing candidates just to get a job, I expected this film to be another indictment of the kind of late-stage capitalism that warps humanity. This has become"},{"type":"review","title":"Resurrection (2025)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/resurrection-2025/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/resurrection-2025/","filmTitle":"Resurrection","filmYear":2025,"rating":2.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-01-07","description":"Avant-garde, delirious (literally), and macabre, Resurrection is an enigmatic collection of unevenly compelling story that mostly fail to construct a cohesive narrative. Friends and I left the theater confused and not moved. We all had some"},{"type":"review","title":"Marty Supreme (2025)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/marty-supreme-2025/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/marty-supreme/","filmTitle":"Marty Supreme","filmYear":2025,"rating":4,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2026-01-03","description":"First movie of 2026, we are starting off strong with Marty Supreme. Nail-biting, relentless and electric all at the same time, this was a supreme cinematic experience. When I first learned they were making a movie about an American ping-pon"},{"type":"review","title":"The Birdcage (1996)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/the-birdcage-1996/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/the-birdcage/","filmTitle":"The Birdcage","filmYear":1996,"rating":null,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2025-12-30","description":"watched it on my last night in miami. not attaching a rating because i was distracted and unfocused during the viewing just wanted to say it’s a bit sad that while so much has changed since the making of this film, so much of the fundamenta"},{"type":"review","title":"The Secret Agent (2025)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/the-secret-agent-2025/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/the-secret-agent-2025/","filmTitle":"The Secret Agent","filmYear":2025,"rating":null,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2025-12-20","description":"Not attaching a rating because I think i would be unfair to rate it when I should have known this is not a move that is made for me and didn’t take the time to learn about the background beforehand. 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I remember loving it so much that I made my mom wa"},{"type":"review","title":"The Roses (2025)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/the-roses-2025/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/the-roses-2025/","filmTitle":"The Roses","filmYear":2025,"rating":4,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2025-11-23","description":"Painful, mesmerizing, and sobering, The Roses paints the saddest rendition of marriage and long-term intimacy I've seen in a long time. Reminds me of Marriage Story, but more mordant, dramatic, and hilarious. Both Benedict Cumberbatch and O"},{"type":"review","title":"Wicked: For Good (2025)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/wicked-for-good-2025/","sourceUrl":"https://letterboxd.com/lennessy/film/wicked-for-good/","filmTitle":"Wicked: For Good","filmYear":2025,"rating":2.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2025-11-22","description":"This film is actually as good as can be expected as an adoption of act 2 of Wicked the stage musical. 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So much humanity and heart in every scene. An ode to the healing and liberating power of art. It almost feels like a spoiler to talk about the credits, because they really"},{"type":"review","title":"Nosferatu (2024)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/nosferatu-2024/","sourceUrl":"https://boxd.it/8llcbl","filmTitle":"Nosferatu","filmYear":2024,"rating":3.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2025-01-05","description":"first movie of 2025! watching this movie feels like somewhat of a religious experience. everything from the story to the characters to the cinematography kept me in a trance. \r\n\r\ni kept thinking about what it feels like to be so unbelievabl"},{"type":"review","title":"Babygirl (2024)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/babygirl-2024/","sourceUrl":"https://boxd.it/8aztw5","filmTitle":"Babygirl","filmYear":2024,"rating":3.5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2024-12-25","description":"bold, provocative, and layered. the suspension of disbelief required here is high - you do need to check everything you know about how to interact with people at work (or in general really) at the door to be able to enjoy this movie. for th"},{"type":"review","title":"Carol (2015)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/carol-2015/","sourceUrl":"https://boxd.it/87rFll","filmTitle":"Carol","filmYear":2015,"rating":4,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2024-12-21","description":"you may be tempted to put on this movie on a tuesday night at home because you heard good things and it’s been on your list but then end up scrolling on your film throughout the movie. don’t. \r\n\r\nfind a small art house theater near you and "},{"type":"review","title":"Her Story (2024)","url":"https://lennyc.me/reviews/her-story-2024-2/","sourceUrl":"https://boxd.it/84enFT","filmTitle":"Her Story","filmYear":2024,"rating":5,"ratingScale":{"min":0.5,"max":5},"watchedDate":"2024-12-15","description":"loved, loved, loved this movie. 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