Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Rebel Ridge 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Feb 2025

  An action movie inspired by a John Oliver Last Week Tonight segment. This is a small town political thriller about attempts at police reform and civil asset forfeiture. These are genuinely realistic stakes Stakes that ground the more heightened action movie elements and it rules. The camera work is great and the staging is as good as I can remember in a mainstream movie not directed by Steven Spielberg. The action is so unique because Aaron Pierre's character is committed to non-lethal effects. No one has made unloading a gun look so cool.

  "I think he's on the Wikipedia page."

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  A Different Man 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Feb 2025

  I kept waiting for a moment of cathartsis. I expected a scene where Edward reveals the truth about who he is and finally feels understood. But this movie is so much better than that.

  Trigger warning: be careful showing this to the insecure actors in your life.

Popular reviews

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Jul 2023

  I’m not sure the movie successfully tackles every idea it takes on, but I have such admiration for the effort. And yet, Greta Gerwig has made another movie that hits me at my very core. All of her work strikes a very specific chord in my soul. Let her make whatever she wants.

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Apr 2024 1

  I feel like my heart is pumping pure adrenaline. My knuckles are literally white. Actually hair raising. I want to run through a brick wall. I don’t know how else to describe it. An elite script, stunning visual style, and a trio of the most charismatic performances you can imagine. This is what happens when everything comes together in the service of an idea, a unifying principle, a theme. I’m in awe.

  “You don’t know what tennis is.”
  “What is it?”
  “It’s a relationship.”