Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Drive-Away Dolls 2024

  ★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Streamed, Prime Video

  Somebody get Joel on the phone stat, his brother has gone batshit crazy.

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  We Live in Time 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Streamed, HBO MAX

  Enjoyed this way more than I thought I would. The movie lives and dies with Pugh and Garfield, and they do a fantastic job carrying the screenplay throughout the entirety of the 108 minutes.

  Wish we knew more about the characters (I’m a chef is the extent of the background we get on Pugh), but for what it is, it does everything else really really well.

Popular reviews

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  Somewhere Quiet 2023

  ★ Watched 14 Feb 2024 1

  I was gaslit into thinking this would be a good movie

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  Jacob's Ladder 1990

  ★★★★ Watched 12 May 2024 2

  I really, really thought this had the potential to be the anti-war movie for Americans as Come and See was for the world through about 70 minutes, but unfortunately it falls short. An incredibly compelling and story-book-like psychological horror immerses you into the life of a solider suffering from severe PTSD, only to be ripped away with a cheap ending that felt like the writer(s) just really had no idea to wrap up.

  Beyond that, it is a movie that…

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