Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Death of a Unicorn 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  I would like to thank the costume designers for always putting Will Poulter in shorts that showcased his cake. 

  Anyway, it was a fun silly movie. I enjoyed Jenna Ortega’s performance and Will Poulter’s comedic delivery.

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  The Assessment 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  I didn’t account for Saturday traffic and Saturday mall parking, so I was late. It threw off my whole vibe, which did not put me in the headspace to see the adult worker literally acting as a child. I was a little disturbed at times (which is the point).  

  It’s an interesting take on existential sci fi with good performances from Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Olsen.

  Also, the female nudity in this gave me “is the director a man?” concerns like I had at points in The Substance (both were directed by women).

Popular reviews

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025 2

  Maddie and I had perfect seats in the center of a very large auditorium. One of the only other people there was an elderly man who walked in with a cane. He stayed the whole time, so I hope he enjoyed it.

  Upping my rating because it truly was even better on second watch. 
  I really got to appreciate Mikey Madison’s facial expressions and body language. She did a fantastic job physically expressing what Ani was going through. I was…

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  Opus 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Juliette Lewis is really struggling to find her next Cape Fear (1991) or Ma (2019). 

  But anyway. I thought it was gonna be pretty bad from the trailer, but I actually enjoyed it. Not groundbreaking, but I thought the epilogue portion really added to the story. 

  I am an Ayo Edebiri fan.

  The cinematography was very good. I’m not normally one to really notice that, but it was well done. Notably, they included some The Brutalist-style camera-in-front-of-the-vehicle shots. It was probably…