Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Absolutely rules. The first Soderberg movie in a while that feels like a real movie rather than an experiment (although I’ve been a fan of all the experiments I’ve seen). The cast absolutely crushes it and now my all of my Tom Burke stock is going to the moon📈

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  Flow 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Feb 2025

  Really cool movie.  Starts as a pretty straightforward movie about a cat and kind of ascended to something a little more weird and spiritual by the end. Not sure how this managed to break through into an Oscar contender, but it’s well deserving of it.

Popular reviews

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  Clerks 1994

  ½ Watched 15 Jan 2021

  I literally have no idea how this movie is considered a cult classic. This is one of the worst movies I’ve seen in a long long time. It’s so derivative of Tarantino (oh look at me I’m talking about normal stuff and some obscure pop culture references and play music no one has heard before) but does it all so so so bad. This is like a 16 year old made a movie about what it’s like to be 22.…

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  Dick Johnson Is Dead 2020

  ★ Watched 01 Feb 2021

  I really didn’t enjoy this at all. I’m sure it was very therapeutic for Kirsten Johnson to make this and helped her grappling with her fathers passing (which still hasn’t happened which made this work even less for me), but it felt very invasive and exploitative of a man with dementia and his coming to terms with death and memory loss. Certain times I was just hoping she would turn the camera off, but she never does and it really…