Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Palindromes 2004

  Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Q & A with Todd Solondz, Timothy Bird, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Richard Masur, Debra Monk, and Derrick Tseng

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  The Remarkable Life of Ibelin 2024

  Watched 02 Jan 2025

  Made me cry 5 separate times in just the first 30 minutes.

Popular reviews

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  Babysitter 2022

  Watched 23 Jan 2022

  Sundance Film #7

  If, like me, you tend to really enjoy the absurdist and highly stylized stuff (Greener Grass, Strawberry Mansion) that comes out of Sundance, and, like me, you happen to love comedies in French (Delicatessen, The Dinner Game), then this is a must see. The writing here is thematically rich, clever and hysterical. The direction is excellent- it's gorgeous to look at- and the actors are all phenomenal and manage to be both over-the-top and truthful.

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  13: The Musical 2022

  Watched 11 Aug 2022 1

  At some moments, this film seems targeted to a 5-year old crowd who would enjoy these songs with sing along lyric videos, at others it seems targeted to middle aged women trying to cope with divorce, at no point does it seem targeted to any person I have ever met or ever want to meet. The original musical was no Sondheim, but it had charm, heart, excitement and great songs- this adaptation ruins much of that (save a small few…