Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Son of Godzilla 1967

  ★½ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  Worst of the Showa era so far. Extra incomprehensible human storyline and the monster fights are some of the worst of the series. Not even fun bad.

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  Hook 1991

  ★★½ Rewatched 20 Mar 2025

  Every time I rewatch this I find something new that doesn’t work. This time, the sword-fighting choreography. It’s terrible! Williams is awful!

Popular reviews

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  Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  I should have mailed this review to the Marx brothers.

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  The Witch 2015

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Feb 2015

  Since its first screening The Witch has been described by critics as Arthur Miller’s The Crucible meets Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. And the comparison is apt, not only is The Witch the most obviously Kubrickian film since There Will Be Blood, but it may be the first horror film since 1980 to live up to the promise of The Shining.

  Full Review: www.thedirectorial.com/archive/2015/2/8/sundance-review-the-witch