Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Erin Brockovich 2000

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Feb 2025

  A movie about my major?! Movie 6/52

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Feb 2025

  First five stars of the year, watched on my flight from Denver to Chicago

Popular reviews

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  Bitter Rice 1949

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Mar 2024

  Favorite of the neorealist films we have watched

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  Five Broken Cameras 2011

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Dec 2023

  This was intimate and enthralling- very sad. It covers the events of a Palestinian village in the West Bank from 2003-2009 and the journey of one family as they peacefully resist new Israeli settlements and a wall over their land, but over time they lose hope in the non-violent resistance as more of their own are killed. They never turn to deadly violence but hopelessness takes over. The film humanizes Palestinians particularly Palestinian men, who we experience as proud, gentle,…

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