Favorite films

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  Her 2013

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  It would be an understatement to say this is one of my favorite films of all time. So tender, raw, funny, heartfelt and sincere, Spike Jonze’s Her is just as relevant now (if not more so) than when it was released over a decade ago. 

  Theodore’s crippling sense of loneliness, his fear of intimacy, and his refusal to acknowledge his own feelings feels so appropriate for how we occasionally navigate our lives contemporaneously. Technology is only going to make this…

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  Opus 2025

  ★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  The themes are glaringly obvious, the twists are visible a country mile away, but I did appreciate the ideas at the core of the film.

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag is an immensely fun, sexy, and stylish spy thriller that emphasizes character. The spectacle is the twisty, messy relationships of our leads. This is refreshingly mature, with an airtight script from David Koepp. Soderbergh ruling 2025 so far.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  A tonally weird, not wholly satisfying concoction of Snowpiecer and Okja. Robert Pattinson and Naomi Ackie are truly the standouts, their electric relationship the core of what makes this entertaining in the slightest. Both Pattinson and Ackie showcase wonderful duality in their respective parts, especially Pattinson whose comedic timing and sensibilities elevate a clunky, grossly uneven screenplay.

  I really wanted to love this (Darius Khondji‘s cinematography is a highlight) but the verbose exposition and weird pacing make this a fairly bloated, occasionally awkward and uninteresting film. Which is a real shame given how wonderfully weird and quirky everything else is.