Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  another soderbergh banger.

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  Do the Right Thing 1989

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 11 Mar 2025

  "The City of New York will not let property be destroyed by anyone."

Popular reviews

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  Rear Window 1954

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Jul 2016 5

  "We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change."

  Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window could almost be a stage play. Windows act as a small glimpse into peoples' private lives. Small vignettes play out under the eye of an ever so curious photographer. Set in a singular location, it is a prime example of a filmmaker acting as a puppet master, positioning his camera, set and…

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  Palo Alto 2013

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 03 Aug 2016

  "I wish I didn't care about anything. But I do care. I care about everything too much."

  I have a problem with many films about contemporary high school. They're either overbearingly quirky, or their representation of teenagers is one of two things: either incredibly stupid and short minded or too smart for their own goods. Sure, there are films that tackle the teenage angst of not only school, but also social life, but I have never seen a film tackle…