Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Warrior 2011

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 21 Mar 2025

  Rewatched to confirm that Gavin O'Connor is unironically one of my favorite filmmakers. Loses half a star for the cringey high schoolers.

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  Midnight Cowboy 1969

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  The kind of movie I'd probably make—excellent fits, psychosexual dynamics, bleak tone. Voight nails his part as the vain, naive, wannabe-hustler, and Hoffman really goes for it as the eternally down-on-his-luck slime-ball. Even though this film is well over 50 years old, it feels super modern.

  I wonder what a sequel would look like—how does Joe Buck fare in Florida?

Popular reviews

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  Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood 2019

  ★★★½ Added

  I'm still mourning the loss of Tarantino's long time editor Sally Menke. All his films after her death have been plodding and overlong.

  This one is too, but I found this depiction of 1960's Hollywood irresistible... the clothes, the cars, the music on the radio. All the actors put on excellent performances and they are all extremely good looking.

  There's a melancholy but good-hearted vibe to the thing which I didn't expect from the director of "Deathproof". As disjointed as…

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Nov 2024

  Just about every actor pops in this hyper-contemporary film about sex-work and Russian billionaires. It sticks the landing, too.

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