Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Training Day 2001

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Great performances, odd script. 

  Also love to see that even back in 2001 directors and audiences equated a severe green/yellow color grading with GRIT AND GRIME

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  90 minute spy thriller built around people in rooms talking — don’t mind if I do

Popular reviews

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Jan 2025

  Every time I heard the overture theme I stood up and saluted the screen. I can’t wait to watch this again. Nothing but admiration and respect for Brady Corbet clearly pushing (maybe, maybe to a fault) to make something truly majestic. 

  The sensory and emotional experience was so overwhelming that I feel I have at best a tenuous grasp on the themes and ideas here. Suffice to say, I am already looking forward to peeling this thing back the first chance I get.

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  Sweet Smell of Success 1957

  ★★★★½ Watched 08 Jan 2025

  I cannot be surprised that every review logged on here is just a line of dialogue. Allow me to toss in one of my favorites:

  “What has this boy got that Susie likes?”

  “Integrity. Acute, like indigestion.”

  This movie rocks.