Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Parenting 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Wait, I kind of liked it. Sure, it’s dumb, forgettable, but it made me giggle quite a bit! Lisa Kudrow cracks me up, and a possessed Brian Cox says, “Well, I’m looking at the dad-dick right now, and if the son-dick is anything like the dad-dick, the dick is small.” It was easy-watching for me. 

  Least favorite part was the gay couple; that kind of neurotic, heteronormative vibe is not for me, but it’s still sweet to get gay people in a movie.

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  Wanda 1970

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Aloof and unmoored, Wanda wanders through life, often at the will of duplicitous men.

  As the first major motion picture written, directed by, and starring a woman, this is an important artifact. But it’s also a fascinating and fearless piece of cinema, regardless of those qualifiers.

  Unafraid to portray a somewhat unlikeable protagonist, Barbara Loden gives us a brave and complicated film to consider. It’s all unexpectedly existential and sad. Wanda feels as authentic as she does frustrating, and we…

Popular reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  This is like the perfect four-star movie. Beautiful cast, tight script, taut runtime, lean, funny, entertaining, intriguing, easy-to-follow, loved it.

  So cool that SS released this just a few months after Presence, which I also really enjoyed!

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Mar 2025 6

  A beautiful Bong hit!

  Oh, I loved this so much. I love when I have the itch that a film’s gonna be a 5, and then it’s like a 6! Hell, 17! I sat in seat D17 in front of that beautiful IMAX screen and had a helluva good time!!!

  This is just such a banger. I love when something is really smart and really stupid in equal measure. 

  It’s bold, it’s bonkers, it’s timely AF, full of unsubtle and…