Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Nashville 1975

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 18 Mar 2025

  Desert Island pick.

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  Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  More happens in the first and last 20 minutes than the entire second act.

Popular reviews

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  Nickel Boys 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Jan 2025 1

  Cinema at its best is a vehicle for empathy. A chance to step outside oneself and see the world through another’s eyes. This movie takes this notion one step further and invites you to literally look through the protagonists eyes; to notice what he notices, remember what he remembers, and experience what he experiences. This technique in the hands of a lesser director could have easily been reduced to a cliche or gimmick. Something that not only functions as a…

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  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 Mar 2024

  A movie which boarders on theatre to a point of exhaustion but holds itself back just enough to remain palpable on screen. A minimalist film with as much whit, excitement, and verisimilitude in single scenes as some films capture in two hours of run time. A cringe fest with the ability to turn grapes into wine and apples into lemons.  How exiting it is to see something new yet so old; to see the density of a novel contained souly in…