Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Invitation 2015

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Maybe the best example of this genre. 

  With the massive disappointment of Opus in recent weeks, it’s nice to see a movie that operates in a similar genre succeed so thoroughly. Karyn Kusama makes a locked mansion feel expansive, and keeps the space feeling fresh, something essential to a film so claustrophobic. She and cinematographer Bobby Shore make great use of lighting, the red lamp and a laptop Will uses being my favorite examples. The writing is equally skillful. I…

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  The Godfather Part II 1974

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.

  Sprawling and haunted. Continuing my first watch of The Great American Trilogy, and it’s been a joy. I’ve now hit all of Francis Ford Coppola’s 70s masterworks this year, and the dude simply couldn’t miss for a decade. The Godfather films are less ambitious than something like Apocalypse Now, and are maybe more mainstream than The Conversation, but it could…

Popular reviews

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  Nickel Boys 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Jan 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  Hey, Mickey? What’s it feel like to die? 

  The day has finally come. Had been waiting and waiting and waiting to see Mickey 17, and yesterday I got the chance to see it in Dolby. Had heard many months ago a line that had stuck in my head about this movie, that it was “much closer to Okja than Snowpiercer.” That had been rattling around in my head during the endless wait for this films release. Having seen it… yeah. But…