Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Unforgiven 1992

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 23 Mar 2025

  "It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have."

  Rewatch for Gene Hackman tribute episode. Wow, this movie has aged really well. Hackman is just absolutely at peak levels here. His Little Bill is such a complex villain. Is he a villain or just a sheriff good at keeping order? How is he more of a villain than Eastwood's character? All that moral ambiguity is what makes Westerns at their best such a perfect genre to explore the American character.

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  Night Must Fall 1937

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Sharp pot boiler with Robert Montgomery playing against type as a saucy Irish slimeball. Rosalind Russell is the young "old maid" type who suspects him of murder, but is also attracted to him.

Popular reviews

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  Girls Will Be Girls 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Jan 2024

  My favorite genre, coming of age stories, can be so terrific when rooted in something specific, unlike so many Hollywood versions of the genre. In this charming film, the focus is on Mira, the first female prefect at an elite boarding school in the Himalayas. Mira is trying to balance her academic rigor with a newfound lust/love for hottie Sri and the hopes of her mother. In one scene, we find that Mira's mother gave up her own dreams and…

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

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