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Staving off the existential dread one cinematic treat at a time

Favorite films

  • Blindspotting
  • Silver Linings Playbook
  • Drive
  • Lady Bird

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  • Catch Me If You Can

    ★★★½

  • Trainspotting

    ★★★★

  • Whiplash

    ★★★★★

  • Moneyball

    ★★★

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  • Catch Me If You Can

    Catch Me If You Can

    ★★★½

    It’s fun but ultimately feels unsure of what it wants to be. Leo is as charming as ever and it looks great.

    81/100

  • Trainspotting

    Trainspotting

    ★★★★

    A movie full of this much dread and hopelessness shouldn’t be this stylish and fun.

    89/100

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  • The Wild Robot

    The Wild Robot

    ★★★★

    Eerily dystopian - that shot of the Golden Gate Bridge underwater with a happy score felt like a strange juxtaposition. 

    85/100

  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★★

    I can already see the retrospective article 10 years from now - “A Mountain From A Mole Hill - How Dune Saved Warner Brothers.”

    Denis! Has! The juice! Take everything incredible about Dune part 1 and double it. Grander scale, bigger world, more explosive action - it’s something that I thought we may never get again in cinema. There are some very fun twists throughout but the movie isn’t propped up by them, which so many fall trap to.

    I…