Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Apex mountain for Pret a Manger

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  The Yards 2000

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Not sure this does anything that James Gray doesn't do even better years later with We Own the Night, but this guy might be the most reliable director in Hollywood. As sturdy as they come.

Popular reviews

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  American Fiction 2023

  ★ Watched 15 Dec 2023 1

  Has Cord Jefferson watched a movie in the last decade? This movie feels so immediately dated before the opening credits even play. The irony is that THIS is the kind of pandering crap that Hollywood now churns out, appealing to our feel-good liberal sensibilities while failing to challenge or confront us with a single coherent thought. Not sure why this not-so-scathing satire also had to be paired with the miserable melodrama of a basic cable drama (and shot like one…

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  Booksmart 2019

  ★ Watched 28 May 2019 1

  Genuinely confused with the praise this movie is getting. Not remotely funny and a huge step back in accurately representing high school/adolescence.

  It's weird because the film is so neatly constructed and even innovative at times, yet it fails to convey a single theme or idea. It also does that awful thing at least 20 times where it slows down and drowns out any sound in favor of playing a random pop song because this is apparently the only way the film can think to create any emotional connection between us and its characters.