Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Novocaine 2025

  ★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Had me in the first half, but this just got too outdated for me in the end. This would have brought home the bank in 2013.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  I could see this one growing on me, but I found it to be quite disjointed. It focussed on themes that were the most simplistic, and all the interesting themes seemed to be left behind by the end. Some of the comedy worked for me, but I found it a little bit dull.

Popular reviews

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  Clean 2021

  ★★ Watched 28 Jan 2022

  Adrien Brody's usage of the word "boom" in this movie is hysterically bad.

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Sep 2024 2

  This was my first experience at TIFF, and alone I went to the 3 and a half hour screening at the Lightbox theatre, after only knowing the movie had existed for a bit under a month. I should preface and say that the positive experience of going to the festival may, whether consciously or not, sway my opinion of the film itself. Having said that this film is a near masterpiece, signifying Corbet as an incredibly intriguing voice in film…