Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Top Gun: Maverick 2022

  ★★★½ Rewatched 04 Mar 2023

  Creed boxed so that Top Gun: Maverick could fly.

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  Pina 2011

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Aug 2015

  Being neither dancer nor knowledgeable about dance at all, I sat entranced and, frankly, slack-jawed by the beauty of this movie. Pina Bausch left a rich legacy in her choreography and in all the dancers who performed it, and this is a lovely tribute to their art.

Popular reviews

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  Arthur 1981

  ★★★★ Rewatched 03 Jan 2015

  Dudley Moore plays the best drunk in film, and John Gielgud perhaps plays the best snob. While some judge the merits of this film on those accomplishments alone, these two actors - along with the direction and writing - imbue their characters with so much life that their pleasures and fears become the audience's. We gleefully drown sorrows with Arthur and stoically mask pain with Hobson. We mourn, and we fall in love. This is a human-scale comedy, despite its lavish settings and wealthy trappings, and it's made all the funnier and more poignant because of that relatability.

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  What About Bob? 1991

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 01 Jan 2015

  Neither a comedy classic nor a wholly rebellious one, it nevertheless is a movie that I share with my dad. We've been watching it for so long that it is ingrained in our relationship - with the script seeping its way into our everyday speech ("So you're Betty?") - and it's always a treasure to watch it with him and laugh with him.