Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Women Talking 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2023

  A group of faithful Mennonite women confront their brutal mistreatment at the hands of the men of their colony and realize they have incredibly diverse perspectives on their suffering, their lives, and their futures which they must reconcile to some degree before they can hope to find safety together.

  Wonderfully acted and carefully written, Women Talking depicts a true discourse between women with wildly differing conclusions drawn from a shared suffering. A generation-spanning discussion of liberation within the confines of an isolated religious sect.

  Beautiful camera, costume, and set work.

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  War for the Planet of the Apes 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Feb 2023

  A fantastic and very enjoyable film that builds off the anti-war themes of the prior Planet of the Apes film and takes the conflict between Humans and Apes to its inevitable conclusion. Almost wholly focused on the Apes perspective, which is an upgrade, as all of the ape characters are the ones who have had the longest and most development. The stakes are meaningful and the conflicts are intense. This film has a lot more stealth and asymmetric combat, the…

Popular reviews

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  Europa Report 2013

  ★★½ Watched 23 Feb 2023

  Hilarious, but didn't intend to be at all. Great set design and quality performances ruined by hilarious editing decisions and an absolute joke of a "twist" ending. A movie written by redditors for redditors. Maybe worth a watch if you really love the actors, otherwise, mostly just fun because of how funny the ending is.

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  Prospect 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched 07 Feb 2023

  Extremely solid sci-fi film about two space prospectors trying to escape a frontier planet before the last ship leaves. Tense and fast-paced. Phenomenal costume design. Every character has a different style of spacesuit, as though they all bought from different space corporations with incompatible parts. Solidly told from the perspective of Cee (Sophie Thatcher) coping with an overbearing, struggling, but loving father and then struggling with her life becoming entangled with that of a traumatized space bandit.