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Favorite films

  • Casino Royale
  • Jerry Maguire
  • A Star Is Born
  • The Lion in Winter

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  • Father of the Bride

    ★★★★½

  • Emma.

    ★★★½

  • David Byrne's American Utopia

    ★★★★

  • Smile 2

    ★★½

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  • Perfect Days

    Perfect Days

    ★★★★

    Brian’s Criterion Challenge 2025 - Film #5 of 52

    Many philosophical inquiries come to mind after seeing this film. However, one question rises above the rest.

    Is this apex mountain for urinal cakes in cinema? This news reporter says YES.

  • Civil War

    Civil War

    ★★★★★

    Visceral.

    The apolitical nature worked wholly to its benefit. There was no “I point my finger at your side!” The message of “we all better get better at bipartisanship before our nation explodes like an RPG shooting at The Lincoln Memorial” was much more effective. 

    The seriousness, depravity, and balls-to-the-wall vicious violence of war is at its height in this film - reminiscent of films like Saving Private Ryan and Full Metal Jacket.

    Alex Garland hit a Grand Slam. Hopefully he’s…

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  • Father of the Bride

    Father of the Bride

    ★★★★½

    Nancy, please write more movies. Preferably with Steve Martin in them. Martin Short can come too!

    This is my 1,000th Letterboxd review!

  • Casino Royale

    Casino Royale

    ★★

    Even less funny than I remembered, and it was never that funny to begin with.

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  • Einstein and the Bomb

    Einstein and the Bomb

    ★½

    Without checking what Albert Einstein actually sounded like, I’m confident that this was a terrible impersonation of Albert Einstein.

  • Crimson Tide

    Crimson Tide

    ★★★★★

    This is my favorite Hackman performance

    or The Birdcage

    or The Conversation

    maybe Hoosiers…

    alright, I have a lot of them, ok?