Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Untouchables 1987

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  I love, love, love de Palma's camerawork so much. It’s still so fresh and expressive? You got your distorted wide angle close-ups, your split diopters, even some lengthy oners and pov shots and slo mos and… it’s a joy to watch.
  Also remember that even in this "developed" world the structures this movie lays bare are still here, they are just much more obscure OR have become morally acceptable through decades-long legal efforts; The fight for justice is still as brutal.

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  Ice Age: Continental Drift 2012

  ★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  no.

Popular reviews

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  Heat 1995

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Jan 2024

  he's the modern man: disconnected, frightened... paranoid, but with good reason.
  it's too sad to be funny.

  neoliberalism destroys all human connection, and there is no escape from it, not in friendship, not in love, not in marriage. maybe the loneliest movie of all time, except whatever de niro and al pacino have going on.
  michael mann has unparalleled juice here, and al pacino is just funny as fuck

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  The Beast 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Aug 2024

  It’s almost pointless to start writing about what’s going on in this movie because it’s just too much, I’m gonna have to watch it a 2nd time soon because it overloaded my brain. The beast feels like a huge journey, an entire lifetime crammed into 2.5 hours. Despite being super postmodern, ironic, 4th-wall-breaking, it’s just so radically sincere and vulnerable. So many little observations about life and the future that are so poignant and painfully accurate, everything in this huge…

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