Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Beginners 2010

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  I feel some Big Fish magic in this less sparkly, more depressing, grown up love story

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  Jury Duty 1995

  ★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Stars for the Cream Machine and Peanut only, otherwise a great disappointment

Popular reviews

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  Blood Simple 1984

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Nov 2022

  Woah. Everything about this is perfect. Pacing. Acting. Story. Soundtrack. Lighting. Composition and camera angles. But what felt most unique to me was the sound editing. The low whirring of the ceiling fans. The startling blows of the newspaper smacking the door and stumbling over the gun. The glass breaking. The footfalls. Unlike anything I’ve seen (heard). Made it cool to imagine as a radio performance.

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  The Northman 2022

  ★★½ Watched 26 Apr 2022

  This was very uninteresting to me 😬
  Spookiness, ancient history, mysticism, graphic violence - those are all easy ways to hold my attention and yet Eggers grabbed none of mine.

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