Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Lavender Hill Mob 1951

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  A story about how the French manage to ruin everything.

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  The Electric State 2025

  ★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Its ruminations on technology, manual labor, and the need for real human connection feel half-baked. Chris Pratt phones in another Great Value Starlord performance. If you took a shot after every on-the-nose needle drop, you’d have an impressive case of alcohol poisoning. It would be too expensive at half the reported budget. And for all of the crash-bang robot action, it feels kind of lifeless. And yet, I didn’t hate The Electric State quite as much as all the negative word-of-mouth had me prepared for.

Popular reviews

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  Gunday 2014

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Jan 2021

  The fight scenes are solid, but where Gunday really nails down American buddy action movies is in the homoeroticism.

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  Elton John: Never Too Late 2024

  ★★ Watched 16 Feb 2025

  Even if Elton John: Never Too Late could find a throughline and stick with it, it would likely just be a lesser documentary version of Rocketman. But the doc is such an unfocused mess that even the occasional bits of actual insight get lost in a pretty uninspired shuffle.