Curator · The Empath
Hollis Grant
@hollis · 40 logs · 6 followers · 7 following
Empath · intimate · interior · thin setting
Demo account. The past rates higher. Currently working through every film released before I was born.
Archetype
The Empath
Feeling and character predict everything. With a streak of The Sincere.
7% of curators. Today's reading; it moves as they rate.
They want to feel it. Character, interiority, a face holding something back: if the work makes they care about a person, they are all in.
Where it goes wrong: A work can move you without being good, and you will defend it anyway.
More about the Empath
- Avoids
- Detachment. Clever, cool, mechanical work reads to you as a closed door, however admired it is.
- How they rate
- Your stars are a record of how much you felt. Reviews describe what it did to you, not what it is.
- Good company
- You pair well with the Sincere and the Comfort Seeker; the Ironist finds you earnest, and you find them evasive.
- Against the crowd
- You are kinder than the crowd to small, tender work and harsher on spectacle that forgot to have a heart.
In three lines
- More intimate than almost every curator. scaleintimateepic 65%
- More interior than almost every curator. character vs. plotcharacter-ledplot-driven 65%
- More thin setting than almost every curator. world-buildingsparerichly built 59%
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
Badges
All 24- Omnivore · GoldMaxed
- Time traveller · GoldMaxed
- Shelved · Silver18 of 25
- On a streak · Silver40 of 100
- Opinionated · Silver52 of 200
- First entry · BronzeMaxed
- Reader9 of 10
- Listener9 of 10
Favorites
The five this curator would hand you first, in no particular order.
Films
The Godfather
2001: A Space Odyssey
Casablanca
The Thing
Sunset Boulevard
Seriess
BEEF
Books
Dune- The Hobbit
Blood Meridian
The Remains of the Day
Circe
Albums
- Kid A
- Rumours
- Blue
- Illmatic
- Hounds of Love
Games
Disco Elysium
Slay the Spire
Taste fingerprint
Fourteen dimensions, read against every other curator.
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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.
Ratings by medium
The dashed line is the mean. Kinder to books than films? It shows here.
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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 taste map
Every curator with a profile, placed on the two directions taste varies most along. Archetypes cluster; Hollis Grant is ringed.
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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. Neighbours are worth a look.
Hollis Grant against the crowd
Every rated title with an audience score.
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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 the character of what Hollis Grant loved has moved, year by year, on the four strongest dimensions.
Needs ratings across at least two years, with three or more in each.
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One line per dimension, one point per year: the average character of what you loved that year. A line that climbs means your favourites moved toward that pole.
The numbers
What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Archetype, with the runners-up
- The Empath35%
- The Sincere25%
- The Archivist24%
In the community
- Kinder than 58% of curators
- Has rated more than 46% of curators
- More intimate than 99% of curators
- 7% of curators are Empaths
Among 631 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 53 rated titles.
This month they were wandering outside your usual taste and settling in for long things. From 11 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Logs
Blue1971
★★★★★hollis
The most honest record ever made about wanting someone and knowing better. River is the best Christmas song because it is barely one.
♥ 3 · 1 comment · 9/15/2026
★★★★★hollis
I watched it on a laptop and it still felt like a cathedral. The cut from the bone to the ship is the whole history of the medium in one edit.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
♥ 2 · 1 comment · 9/3/2026Sunset Boulevard1950
★★★★★hollis
Hollywood eating itself in 1950, narrated by a corpse. Gloria Swanson is not overacting; the character is. The film knows exactly where the line is.
Mostly about the performances.
♥ 3 · 9/1/2026
Illmatic1994
★★★★★hollis
Forty minutes, no filler, a whole city in it. The production is a museum of a year that never came back.
Mostly about the craft, memory.
♥ 2 · 8/13/2026
Abbey Road1969
★★★★★hollis
Side two is the best twenty minutes of pop music, made by four people who could barely be in a room together. The end is called The End. They knew.
Mostly about the craft.
♥ 2 · 1 comment · 7/24/2026
Casablanca1943
★★★★★hollis
Every line is a quotation now and it still plays like a conversation. Claude Rains steals a film that Bogart was already stealing. They do not write them like this; they never did, this was the one time.
Mostly about the performances, the craft, the story.
♥ 3 · 1 comment · 7/13/2026
I saw it. It is a cartoon with a budget. I am told this is the point.
♥ 2 · 7/3/2026Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
watchlist
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