Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  Samwise whining about potatoes is about 1/1,000,000,000th as charming as most people seem to think it is.

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  The Mask 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  Conner O'Malley's ability to find the most depressing touchstones in contemporary American life unlocks the most distressing and bent feeling humor my soul could possibly dredge. Pure genius.

Popular reviews

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  Journey to Italy 1954

  ★★★ Watched 10 Jul 2024

  A beautifully shot slow burn that takes a deeply pragmatic look at what a relationship running on fumes looks like. No romance, no spark, the ability to look at someone as ineluctably beautiful as Ingrid Bergman and feel nothing.

  The ending sucks. It sucks so bad that it's hard to imagine ever watching it again.

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  Secret Honor 1984

  ★★★★ Watched 31 Jan 2025

  This is as impressive as it is exhausting. Being around an insane solipsist is a lot like this. First it's that mix of funny and frightening, then it crescendos into being actually terrifying, and then you ask yourself repeatedly if you might die if you were in their midst. You ask and ask and ask yourself this until eventually the question somehow becomes boring, perhaps because death would be preferable to sharing a space with this person for much longer,…

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