Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Pictures of Ghosts 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  A nice nostalgic snapshot of Recife, Brazil and the movie theaters, now destroyed, that had an impact on filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho. Makes me want to make a documentary about South Hills Cinemas, the Galleria, Destinta, and the Dennis.

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  Rome, Open City 1945

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  I haven’t seen this since college. Such a bleak and brutal movie, but also so powerful. I misremembered that famous scene with Anna Magnani being at the end of the movie, when it’s in fact only the halfway point. It must have been so jarring at the time. Just an 80 year old reminder that fascism is bad folks!

Popular reviews

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  Until the End of the World 1991

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Feb 2020

  This movie is 4 hrs and 47 min long. It definitely doesn’t need to be, but it’s a fascinating and sprawling epic set in an analog future. Robby Muller’s cinematography is incredible and some of the set design/location work are bonkers. It’s like a combo of Brazil, Children of Men, Jules and Jim, and every road trip movie/detective story in one. It should be incredible and the ultimate Wim Wenders film, but it’s a bit unwieldy to say the least.…

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  Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Jul 2023

  Just when I thought this movie couldn’t get any better, they threw in a La Bamba reference. Anyways, this is up there with the best in the series. The stuff with the train at the end… just absolutely incredible. Also the airport heist, Rome chase, Venice stuff… really superb action film.