Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Nickel Boys 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  A beautiful film but I couldn’t get over how bad some of the line deliveries were. At points it was like they were reading off a teleprompter. Elwood specifically. 

  Elwood’s grandmother: killed it.

  Cinematography: killed it again. 

  Score: killed it thrice. 

  It’s maddening how great some of the sequences were and how they were brought down because of the dialogue. Momentum was killed for me every time that a happened.

  Ultimately a great film and props to the director for trying something different.

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  Call Me by Your Name 2017

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 10 Mar 2025

  One lens and one film stock. My kind of movie.

Popular reviews

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★½ Watched 25 Dec 2024

  I don’t know if I watched the same movie as everyone else, or maybe I’m missing something drastic because I haven’t seen many iterations of vampire films, but my god, it left me feeling nothing.

  I keep seeing praise about the cinematography and sound, which I get (it was beautiful), but I don’t care about that if I don’t feel anything regarding the characters. As I write this, I feel like I’m getting more disappointed that this could have been…

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  The Sandlot 1993

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 13 Feb 2025 1

  I’m to the age where The Sandlot makes me cry multiple times? Sick.