Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Once 2007

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Feb 2025

  Such a simple, beautiful film. The characters and script are so refreshingly authentic, and the music is wonderful. Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová have such great chemistry, and their harmonizing in the Oscar winning song "Falling Slowly" is especially affecting. (A-/B+)

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  The Menu 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 21 Nov 2022

  Distasteful and hard to swallow satire, seemingly without purpose in the end. Still incredibly well made and includes some of the greatest performances (Fiennes especially is unhinged) you'll see this year.

Popular reviews

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  The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 2015

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Aug 2015 2

  The Man From Uncle is the best spy/thriller movie I've seen this year. Yeah I've seen Rogue Nation, and enjoyed it very much, but after seeing the imminently hilarious and always entertaining Man From Uncle, I can honestly say that I found it to be the better movie. It does have the some of the same pitfalls that Rogue Nation has, like a standard plot and some cliche characters, but the sizzling dialogue and awesome chemistry between the leads makes…

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  Jurassic World 2015

  ★★★½ Watched 09 Jun 2015 1

  Jurassic World (In my opinion) isn't the disaster that the early negative buzz seems to suggest. Going into to my screening I was expecting Jurassic World to be somewhat of a train-wreck, as the trailers didn't suggest anything special, and there were a fair amount of cringe inducing moments in them. Well, Jurassic World definitely has its share of cringeworthy elements as the trailers suggest, but I still really enjoyed the film, in fact, I left the theater liking it…