Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  A Taxi Driver 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 May 2023

  Extraordinarily wide spectrum of emotion and feeling displayed. I was surprised by where the story went, as I went in blind, and that ride was so painful and yet beautiful. Fun and terror sit side by side with the beauty and the pain, it's just the kind of ride I really crave in a movie. Despite how difficult the violence can be to take I came out hopeful in the end.

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  Casablanca 1942

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Feb 2018

  Sometimes you can see someone's actions and see how overly reacted they were, but they really were just reactions. Everyone turns out so well in the end, it borders on feeling forced, but I'll believe it. All the tie-ups ended up being very satisfying.

Popular reviews

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  Lady Bird 2017

  ★★★½ Watched 04 Feb 2018

  Pin-points that feeling of wanting your circumstances to reflect your inner self. I may have been more affected by it if I'd seen it years ago. Actually, I know I would.

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  Team America: World Police 2004

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Jan 2018

  It sometimes seems like the subject matter can get kinda dicey, but, man, are the jokes ever great. The songs are incredible, all the satire is on point. I can rarely laugh straight through an entire song, but they made it happen. Oh, and it's all made with puppets, an incredibly weird idea I've never seen tackled before or since.