Favorite films

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  The Batman 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2022

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  The Breakfast Club 1985

  ★★★★½ Watched 07 Dec 2021

  I didn’t grow up with John Hughes movies. I didn’t expect to see myself in them, and while falling deeper in love with movies in high school taught me how I could appreciate lives completely unlike my own through film, I thought that his movies were beloved because people could relate to them. Staten Island is as close to white suburbia as it gets within New York, sure, but I went to a high school in Manhattan where everyone studied…

Popular reviews

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  In Jackson Heights 2015

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Mar 2021

  I spent my entire childhood growing up in New York, only leaving when it came time for undergrad and grad school. Stuck on Staten Island, I only started exploring what New York truly had to offer well into high school, as I traveled with my classmates from Lower Manhattan to their neighborhoods throughout the city. Jackson Heights quickly came to represent a microcosm of what made our home great. It felt like the New York my ancestors lived in when…

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  Licorice Pizza 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Nov 2021

  What I perhaps loved most about seeing Licorice Pizza had little to do with the movie - satisfying a nostalgia not for 1973, but for a particular cinematic experience. Getting to sit in one of the 4 auditoriums in the world screening it on Opening Day, all in 70mm. Knowing that with an industry lamenting the loss of platformed releases, all eyes would be on the dollars-per-screen from today and the coming weekend. The expansive, opulent room of the Jaffe…

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