Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The End 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Dec 2024

  These people are constantly mixing up their “thank you’s” with their “I’m sorry’s”

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  Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Jul 2024

  Very much looking forward to 'How the West Was (2)'

Popular reviews

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  The Shining 1980

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 25 Jan 2021

  Several unrelated thoughts on this film I haven't seen in at least 12 years:

  It's such bad dad energy to choose the biggest, nicest, and most central room in the house for a workspace, and then demand absolute peace and quiet there.

  Danny on the big wheel is like horror ASMR. The sound design as he pedals over the carpets and back to the hardwood floor is so satisfying.

  We never see Jack do anything that resembles caretaking. Wendy is…

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  Before Sunrise 1995

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 02 Jun 2020

  ‘Before Sunrise’ is kind of The One for me. [As I'm sure it is for many!] It’s the movie I can’t disentangle from my own nostalgia and experiences to just sit down and watch.

  The last time I saw ‘Before Sunrise,’ it was 2013, and I was studying abroad in Vienna. I had already seen the movie and loved it (naturally!), but now with the Vienna connection, it was even more personal to me. I was in all the spaces…