Favorite films

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  Ben-Hur 1959

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Chronological Best Picture Watch #32
  
  The scope, the race, and the score are undeniable. The rest of the movie is a little deniable. It just feels a little full of itself - it knows the scope is so big and so it's going to drag that out as much as possible. And even though it's entirely framed as a Jesus story, I think the narrative works a lot better if you just cut out the ~25 minutes of Jesus content.…

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Air tight script, and Soderbergh’s style matches it perfectly. So glad this is a 90 minute movie instead of a miniseries where each day is a full episode.

Popular reviews

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  Misha and the Wolves 2021

  ★★½ Watched 19 Aug 2021

  Mixed on this one. It's a really gripping story. But it really jumps around in this gotcha journalism style until it finally lands with its thesis at the very end. Also just some questionable decisions here. Why bother get an actress to play Misha for interviews? And what was their obsession with making these people go and do what they did back then but now with modern technology and an Always Sunny conspiracy board?

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  Dune: Part Two 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Feb 2024

  I'm so happy to see one of my all time favorite directors find such mainstream success. Villeneuve has joined the ranks of Nolan and Cameron as the only ones who really understand iMax and how to use this medium. It was truly beautiful to watch. So many shots were just unbelievable how did they do that moments. And the way every seat in the theater shakes with the soundtrack just immerses you even more.

  The pacing could be a little…

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