Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Truman Show 1998

  ★★★★ Rewatched 17 Mar 2025

  It’s hard to believe this film predates the huge rise in the popularity of reality tv content. It nailed our obsession with manufactured drama that has a veneer of reality. The incentives inherent to producing entertainment like this exploits and brings out the worst in its participants, accelerates the anti-art attitudes of our culture, and numbs the minds of its viewers all in service of brazen consumerism and monotony. The Truman Show exists in a bigger way than anyone could…

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  Novocaine 2025

  ★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Makes creative uses of the premise and is all I needed from this. Jack Quaid with exceptional levels of charm. It takes a lot for a movie to gross me out so good job Novacaine.

Popular reviews

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  Sing Sing 2023

  ★½ Watched 23 Jul 2024

  Unfortunately, this was awful. The premise was very intriguing, and getting most of the performers to be former participants in the theater program is really novel, admirable, and cool. You could tell this was something that really meant a lot to all the actors and Colman Domingo is a very gifted performer. That is why it is so unforgivable that they ended up in a film with such atrocious writing, direction, music, sound design, and cinematography that made it so…

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  Omaha 2025

  ★★★ Watched 25 Jan 2025

  I appreciated what they tried to do here. It was tender, had an excellent cast with great chemistry, gifted young performers, and an empathetic perspective. Unfortunately, it did not sit right with me. I feel like any reasonable viewer knows what’s gonna happen about 5 minutes into the movie. Then you spend the whole time watching fairly banal family moments occur that never reach the levels of levity a movie like this needs to avoid hammering you with depression for…