Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Eephus 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Mar 2025

  Got the 4D experience by watching this in an old metro-Boston theater with two old dudes. Very real movie. Bill Lee is incredible in this.

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  Punch-Drunk Love 2002

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Mar 2025 1

  When Barry was talking about his favorite radio show at dinner, man, that just hit too close to home

Popular reviews

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  Miss Evers' Boys 1997

  ★★½ Watched 31 Mar 2022

  Watched this for an ethics class. I learned that the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was not very ethical.

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  Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2014

  ★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025 2

  Equal parts transcendent and infuriating. In 2014, you could write a movie where the line “you hate bloggers, you make fun of Twitter, you don’t even have a Facebook page” was spoken earnestly. Not sure how the one-take gimmick helped anything here. Couldn’t help but think of Hitchcock’s Rope as a far superior use of that gambit to drive tension, anxiety, and paranoia. I think that worked because it took place in one room over the same timeframe as the…