Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Sleeping with Other People 2015

  ★★★ Watched 16 Feb 2025

  Dumb but kinda cute. Best paired with wine

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  CODA 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Oct 2023

  My wife is 39 weeks pregnant with our daughter, who will be our second child.

  Needless to say I cried like a baby

Popular reviews

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  Dune 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Oct 2021

  Denis does it again.

  Speaking as someone mostly unfamiliar with the story until this film (didn’t read the book but am actively fixing that now), this was a fantastic entry point.

  This property feels especially difficult to translate into a movie because of how dense it is with new vocabulary, political intrigue, some voodoo magic, people groups/factions, etc. Fortunately, this movie introduces those concepts (at least, the ones relevant to this movie’s story) at a good pace and makes the…

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  Tenet 2020

  ★★★ Watched 25 Apr 2021

  Oh, this is a Nolan film alright. You’ve got a galaxy brain plot exposited by underdeveloped characters via fast-paced dialogues that are often reminiscent of those ”How English sounds to non-English speakers” videos. Except I suppose with more BWUMMM.

  But there was a reason I chose this film as the maiden voyage for my newly revamped home theater. This film is packed with incredible set pieces that incorporate the conceit of the film in captivating ways with cars, bombs, and…

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