Blonde 2016
★★★½3.5
Archetype
The Comfort Seeker
Warmth, resolution, rewatchability. With a streak of The Genre Devotee.
15% of curators. Today's reading; it moves as they rate.
Warmth, resolution, a place they can return to. The rewatch is the point; the third time is the best time.
Where it goes wrong: Comfort can be a wall. The work that would have changed your mind never gets past the first ten minutes.
More about the Comfort Seeker
- Avoids
- Cruelty for its own sake, endings that withhold, homework. You do not need to be tested by an evening in.
- How they rate
- You rate on how something leaves you. Reliability earns stars; ambition without kindness does not.
- Good company
- The Empath and the Sincere feel like home. Provocateurs baffle you, and you are the one they most need to hear from.
- Against the crowd
- You are kinder than the crowd to gentle, unfashionable work and cooler on acclaimed bleakness.
In three lines
- More thin setting than almost every curator. world-buildingsparerichly built 63%
- More easy than almost every curator. challengeeffortlessdemanding 59%
- More conventional than most curators. formal experimentationclassical in formformally daring 57%
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
Badges
All 25- Omnivore · GoldMaxed
- Shelved · GoldMaxed
- Time traveler · Silver9 of 10
- On a streak · Silver43 of 100
- Opinionated · Silver54 of 200
- First entry · BronzeMaxed
- Generous23 of 25
- Player9 of 10
Favorites
The five this curator would hand you first, in no particular order.
Films
The Shawshank Redemption
Die Hard
Forrest Gump
Up
John Wick
Seriess
BEEF
Succession
Breaking Bad
The Wire
Fleabag
Books
Circe
The Secret History
The Remains of the Day
Project Hail Mary
Piranesi
Albums
Make a playlist- In Rainbows
- Blue
- Illmatic
- Hounds of Love
- Abbey Road
Games
Portal 2
Baldur's Gate III
Return of the Obra Dinn
The Last of Us
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Fingerprint
Fourteen dimensions, against everyone
Further out is a stronger lean than other curators.
Read this chart
Each spoke is one dimension; further out means a stronger lean that way than other curators. A big shape is a strong, unusual taste; a small one is close to the middle of everyone.
By medium
How Omar H. rates each kind of thing
One row a medium; the dashed line is the mean. Kinder to books than films? It shows here.
Read this chart
One bar per star rating, one row per medium. Where the bars pile up is your habit; the dashed line is your average for that medium.
The map
Every curator, placed by taste
The two directions taste varies most along. Archetypes cluster; Omar H. is ringed, and people they follow are outlined.
Read this chart
Every curator, placed so that people with similar leans sit near each other. The two axes are the directions taste varies most along, found from all profiles. Neighbors are worth a look.
Against the crowd
Where Omar H. parts ways with the audience
Above the line, kinder than the crowd; below it, harsher.
Read this chart
Each dot is a title: your stars up, the audience's average across. Dots above the line are where you were kinder than the crowd, below it harsher. A wide spread means you do not follow consensus.
Drift
How what Omar H. loved has moved
Needs ratings across at least two years, with three or more in each.
Year by year, on the four strongest dimensions.
Read this chart
One line per dimension, one point per year: the average character of what you loved that year. A line that climbs means your favorites moved toward that pole.
The numbers
What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Archetype, with the runners-up
- The Comfort Seeker72%
- The Genre Devotee22%
In the community
- Harsher than 57% of curators
- Has rated more than 52% of curators
- More thin setting than 99% of curators
- 15% of curators are Comfort Seekers
Among 634 curators with a profile.
Taste profile
How far this curator leans on each dimension compared with everyone else. Strongest eight; the rest below.
All fourteen dimensions
Ratings
Profile built from 61 rated titles.
This month they were much like always. From 17 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Logs
Circe 2018
★★★★4.0
A Greek myth told by the one character everyone forgot to ask. Warm, angry, and paced like a thriller in the last third.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
Paddington 2 2017
★★★★4.0
Se7en 1995
★★★½3.5
Hollow Knight 2017
★★★½3.5
Die Hard 1988
★★★★4.0
Pachinko 2017
★★★½3.5
The Avengers 2012
★★★★4.0
Piranesi 2020
★★★½3.5
Project Hail Mary 2021
★★★★4.0
Two scientists, one problem, a lot of maths, and a friendship I would die for. Read it before the film, and then read it again.
Mostly about the performances, the story.
The Matrix 1999
★★★½3.5
Portal 2 2011
★★★★4.0
The funniest game ever written and the puzzles are good enough that the jokes never have to carry it.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
Outer Wilds 2019
★★★3.0
WALL·E 2008
★★★½3.5
Fleabag 2016
★★★½3.5
The Shawshank Redemption 1994
★★★★½4.5
The Secret History 1992
★★★★4.0
A Little Life 2008
★★★½3.5
John Wick 2014
★★★★4.0
Celeste 2018
★★★3.0
The Bear 2022
★★★½3.5
Hereditary 2018
★★★½3.5
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
★★★★4.0
The Godfather 1972
★★★½3.5
Casablanca 1943
★★★½3.5
It is exhausting in the best way, and then the rocks talk and I was done for. A film about kindness disguised as a film about everything.
Mostly about the story.
Inception 2010
★★★3.0
The Wire 2002
★★★½3.5
The Remains of the Day 1989
★★★★4.0
Deadpool 2016
★★★½3.5
Forrest Gump 1994
★★★★4.0
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
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