Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The End 2024

  ★★½ Watched 16 Jan 2025

  Brings me no pleasure to report this didn't do anything for me. Incredibly earnest and sedate, this feels like the best original musical at your local community theater.

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  Heaven's Gate 1980

  ★★★ Watched 05 Oct 2021

  Director’s cut. Not half bad, but is neither the titanic disaster nor the misunderstood masterpiece I was promised. What a disappointment

Popular reviews

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  Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019

  ★ Watched 19 Dec 2019

  Oof

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  Joker 2019

  ★½ Watched 20 Jan 2020

  Very late to this one, so I’m trying to be mindful that all the awards attention does create unfair expectations for a movie like this.

  Still, a messy, unfocused disaster of a movie. Hard pressed to think of another film this didactic that manages to muddle its messages so badly. The most successful elements are lifted out of King of Comedy a scene at a time but lacking all right energy De Niro brings. 

  Phoenix is doing a lot of…