Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Jan 2025

  I have seen things in my life that would make Isaac Newtown crawl back into his mother's womb

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  Battle Royale 2000

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Aug 2024

  And the adults said, Assimilate or DIE!
  Like being a teenager is not entirely about rebellion.

Popular reviews

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  Napoleon 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Nov 2023

  Self discovery:
  This Thanksgiving weekend Friday evening, I am grateful for the gift of self reflection. In the IMAX, I learned two things about myself.

  One, I noted a new (?) cognitive bias about myself - I will believe anything that Joaquín Phoenix says or does.

  Two, how delightful to see a short tyrant get away with his delusions in the quest for love and glory - I can relate.

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  Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Oct 2023

  Grateful to be alive for mainstream productions to be thought inducing and provoking. Needless to say, it is admirable the range of the worlds Rodrigo Prieto can create: he also worked on Barbie released just this summer.

  There's a journalistic investigation published as a book by the same name which Scorsese had been trying to adapt into a script/movie for a while.

  While I do prefer how the literature dived deeply into the legal discrimination that the Osage faced, including…