Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  That ending had me gooped and gagged! It’s Mean Girls but make it catholic! There’s literally a scene where a character copies documents and disseminates them, like in the iconic hallway scene towards the end of Mean Girls.

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  One of Them Days 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  This was a lovely time, though I wish it had been just a tad bit funnier. Keke and SZA have great chemistry and I could have watched another few hours of their high jinks and witty banter. There’s also a who’s who of Black comedians and they all crush it, especially Katt Williams.

Popular reviews

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  The Skin I Live In 2011

  ½ Added

  Holy shit, this movie blazes past problematic and lands straight on insulting and degrading. It's trashy arthouse-ness can't excuse a plot that's equating femininity to weakness and punishment.

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  Arrival 2016

  ★★★★★ Added

  One of the inherent flaws with the science fiction genre is it's lack of an emotional core. Science fiction is very heady and cerebral; more worried about ideas and wonder than emotion. That's not to say sci-fi films don't have anything that stirs the heart, just that what's most interesting is usually the ideas being explored. Most of the best sci-fi movies are the best because they contain both, successfully. Leave it to Denis Villeneuve, on his way to becoming…