Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Everybody Wants Some!! 2016

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  Onwards, upwards and inwards, JA?!

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  Only You 1994

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  Man I love Norman Jewison. Bro KNOWS how to do old fashioned right

Popular reviews

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Jul 2023

  *spoiler free*

  Franz Kafka's books occupy a space in pop culture that doesn't seem to conform to a definition. What makes something 'Kafka-esque'? Pointless bureaucracy? Maybe not. To me, what all of his books share is grand existential dread. The dread of knowing your world could collapse in on itself any minute.

  Chris Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' is as purely Kafka-esque as a film can be. It's lead (aside from Cillian Murphy's prized blue eyes and RDJ's cool little pout), is not…

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  Top Gun: Maverick 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 31 May 2022

  "We are the fucking gold standard" I remember hearing this while listening to the leaked audio of Tom Cruise yelling at a crew member he caught asleep at the wheel. At the time, it sounded incredibly corny but now, not so much. Top Gun : Maverick is, by all means, the gold standard of 21st century filmmaking and all it took was two things : Cruise being cruise without ever trying too hard for it, and Kosinski treating his film…

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