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Favorite films

  • Jurassic Park
  • Moulin Rouge!
  • Scream
  • The Silence of the Lambs

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  • The Parenting

    ★★½

  • Othello

    ★★★½

  • 13 Going on 30

    ★★★½

  • Never Been Kissed

    ★★★

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  • The Parenting

    The Parenting

    ★★½

    Everyone is having a great time, I just wish the film itself were a bit more consistent or tighter.

  • Othello

    Othello

    ★★★½

    It’s cool this exists though I’d imagine if you aren’t familiar with the text, you’d have no idea what the hell was going on because of the way Welles mashes scenes and dialogue together, especially early on. It’s best when the scenes are able to play out at speed, like Iago and Othello’s “is he not honest?” conversation on the castle promenade. 

    Oddly, since it was filmed over 3 years, there a sense that the whole thing takes place in…

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  • Station Eleven

    Station Eleven

    ★★½

    I remember an article from a few years back that talked about how it’s getting harder and harder to tell if a TV show is good because the production values, acting and directing are getting so much better that they obscure when a show is actually underwritten. Station Eleven is the perfect example of this, as all the elements are top notch and yet the writing is inconsistent, occasionally lazy and sometimes incoherent. Character motivations are muddy (what does the…

  • Unorthodox

    Unorthodox

    ★★

    The Brooklyn stuff feels so well observed, lived in and then the Berlin stuff feels like a bad soap opera. This woman has dangerously escaped an oppressive and unwanted life and the big dramatic crux of the show is an audition to music school? So much wasted opportunity.