Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Great Train Robbery 1903

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  At last I’ve seen the earliest released film on my watchlist. The stunts were fun and it's so fascinating how they made the gunshots look like that. Little did these people know they'd be remembered for this more than a century later.

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  Parasite 2019

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  So many details I’d forgotten about, exhilarating at the start and then descends into devastation. Remembered why this theatrical experience was so memorable. The simmering tension explodes during the party scene its still a perfect gut punch

Popular reviews

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Dec 2024

  “If anyone’s gonna hold your attention on a stage, you have to be kind of a freak. You can be beautiful or you can be ugly, but you can’t be plain.”

  Totally transporting. Loved the editing. A few musician biopic clichés popped up but nothing distracting. Playing Bob Dylan could’ve gone so wrong but Tim held it together so well, all those delays and 5 years of prep paid off. Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez really got me too. Elle…

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Jul 2023

  "Albert, when I came to you with those calculations, we thought we might start a chain reaction that would destroy the entire world...I believe we did."

  Words like dense, relentless, breathtaking and haunting come to mind. Nolan didn't make a typical biopic, instead he takes us inside a triumphant and tragic mind going from a sense of righteousness to moral torment. Operating at the highest of his technical and storytelling skills.

  Cillian Murphy is the definition of a visceral, nuanced…