Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Apprentice 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Oct 2024

  such a brilliant film. profoundly critical of trump but it also humanises him a great deal - you watch him cry over the death of his brother due to alcoholism.
  jeremy strong as roy cohn is just absolutely brilliant. he deserves an oscar for it. such a fascinating and hilarious character.
  trump's turn against roy cohn especially as roy cohn was dying of AIDS is probably one of the worst and most cruel things he ever did on an interpersonal…

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  Vengeance Is Mine 1979

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Oct 2024

  Japanese serial killers in the 1960s had some really cool vintage clothes

Popular reviews

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  Chopper 2000

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Aug 2021

  One of the best Australian films I've ever seen, a truly incredible portrait of Australian rage and what life can be like at the margins of our society. We present ourselves to the world as a very laid back and egalitarian culture, but I think this is very much predicated on the continued repression of our history in public consciousness and a refusal to face up to how brutal and violent life can be at the margins of Australian life.…

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  The Tree of Life 2011

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Jul 2019

  This is my favorite film of all time because while reminding us that we are infinitesimally insignificant creatures living on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam, it shows us that there is still something particular, important and special about the human experience of the world and the universe. And I think there is grandeur in this view of life :)