Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  All We Imagine as Light 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Talk about favorite final shot in the last few years.

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  There’s just the right amount of espionage for this to be classified as a spy movie but ultimately this is a film about romance. I’m surprised it took this long to have Fassbender and Blanchett as romantic leads.

Popular reviews

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  Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Oct 2023 2

  I knew I was going to like this. Even with the run time and how it was advertised like a historical slow burning epic. But I forgot the energy Scorsese puts into these films especially with the soundtracks choices, smooth camera movements and choppy edits (the always fun Thelma Schoomaker). 

  Excellent cast. We have heart throb Leo at his ugliest, Robert De Niro at his scariest (talking about the guy who played Travis Bickel and Jake LaMotta) and Lily Gladstone drawing us to her in every frame she’s in even when she shares it with these two screen legends.

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Aug 2023

  There’s a lot to deal with here. Really this is one of the most haunting films ever.

  I thought a bit about Scorsese's "the Aviator" and it made me google search Christopher Nolan's unmade Howard Hughes biopic potentially starring Jim Carey. The Aviator is one of my favorites but I would have loved to see Nolan's vision as well. Probably a blessing in disguise because Nolan said he applied his thought process from the Hughes script to this one. Another…