Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2011

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  Fincher continues to excel at constructing a great mystery film. Two incredibly strong central characters, and a very compelling mystery for them to solve leads to this film being absolutely captivating from beginning to end.

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  Ocean's Thirteen 2007

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Not as good as Eleven, miles better than Twelve, and that is entirely because this one once again focuses on a single heist for the entire movie that is driven by a highly personal goal, probably the most personal in the whole series. This one also confirms that Soderbergh has an outstanding eye for cinematography and editing, this entire film looks insanely good. My favorite bit is probably the extended split-screen segment at the beginning of the climax with all the really nice reds and yellows. Sodey? You’re ok in my book.

Popular reviews

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Dec 2024 1

  Wow, ok. Lot to process with this one. Left the theater probably an hour ago and am only now getting the chance to write anything.

  First off, fantastic print. Happy to see this on 35mm.

  Anora is like 3 different movies that all somehow flow seamlessly into one experience. It starts as a thought-provoking drama about a sex worker’s fling with an immature Russian playboy. After that it quickly shifts gears into, of all things, a comedy of errors about a…

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  In the Lost Lands 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Seeing a movie like this in a theater is very surreal. Like, this is meant to be in the DVD bargain bin, or maybe buried on some nameless streaming service, but instead I saw it in a movie theater. And I'm glad I did.

  This is a deeply silly movie, there's no getting around that. It's so early-2000s edgy and I love it for that. The worldbuilding, visual design, storytelling, it is all so earnestly stupid and that's what makes…