Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Opus 2025

  ★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  A very frustrating film that only gets worse the more you think about it.

  Almost no attempt to actually explore its own themes, characters we’re supposed to care about with like 1 or 2 speaking lines, flat performances from almost everyone, poor pacing that builds tension up to a dud of a third act, derivative ideas about religion and cult, and a lame final exposition dump to top it all off.

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  Civil War 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  Finally got around to this and I’ve found myself a little surprised with the discourse and polarizing nature of this movie. I guess it’s kind of poetic that the movie about a Civil War with no clear reason for conflict created such opposing viewpoints with no specific reasons for debate. I can see viewpoints on both sides; although, I wouldn’t call myself neutral in this war. 

  This movie has problems. I’m not here to say it doesn’t. Some of the…

Popular reviews

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  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004

  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Aug 2020

  I’ve been staring at this screen for about 30 minutes now trying to figure out what to say to properly convey how I feel about this film. For the first half of that 30 mins I was thinking about the film itself. What do I want to say about the story and the characters? What is this film trying to say? How do I interpret the ending?

  Then I thought, “how does this film relate to me?” and now everything…

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  Nightcrawler 2014

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Sep 2020

  A few of my friends were having an argument about whether this is one of the best movies of all time or mid at best. They’re both wrong. It’s not a masterpiece (especially just coming off of Zodiac), but it is really really good. 

  Right off the bat, Gyllenhaal blows this performance out of the park. He really is a huge part of what makes this movie work so well. From the first scene to the last he played this…