Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Seven Samurai 1954

  ★★★★★ Added

  How can I begin to approach reviewing one of the greatest cinematic experiences of all time? A film whose greatness has been discussed to death? Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece transcends being a great action film, standing among the greatest feats of storytelling. Everything in Seven Samurai is perfect and remains as compelling today as it was in 1954, but why? Of course, the film is crafted perfectly, with a nuanced script, expert direction and editing, and performances that are beyond compare.…

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  Dekalog 1989

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Feb 2020

  The power of The Dekalog is hard to capture with mere words. It is a film of contradictions and of the natural complications and ambiguity that makes life so frustrating yet so beautiful at the same time. The film's scope involves the grandest of questions, yet explores those ideas through the most small-scale, intimate scenarios. There are not philosophic monologues exploring the profundity of the scenarios (this is not a Bergman film, whose approach to philosophy in film is great…

Recent reviews

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  Home Alone 2: Lost in New York 1992

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Dec 2024

  Die Hard 2: Home Aloner

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  Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Aug 2024

  Kong throws sand into the eyes of Godzilla and in retaliation Godzilla hits Kong with a vertical suplex. This is my way of saying it is the best movie of all time.

Popular reviews

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  The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 24 Jun 2019

  The genius of Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is how the true horror in this slice of macabre Americana is how grounded and close to our every day reality true evil is. How easy it is to cross the line from harmlessly eccentric hitchhiker to menacing lunatic. How just a few small changes can change a normal Texas farmhouse to the stuff of nightmares. This film is truly nightmarish and disturbing, and the chief reason why it has maintained…

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  Oldboy 2003

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 11 Feb 2020

  I’m making my way through Park Chan-Wook’s filmography and it came time to rewatch Oldboy. It has developed a bit of a reputation over the years as a sort of “baby’s first foreign film” (a role that it serves for me during the phase when I was beginning to expand my film taste beyond blockbusters), gaining the same sort of negative reputation as Fight Club or Quentin Tarantino films. The kind of film that overpopulated online best-of lists and forum…