Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Blade: Trinity 2004

  ★½ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  Bad. But Parker Posey rocks!!

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  The Royal Tenenbaums 2001

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  Very funny that the two actual brothers of the cast are unrelated characters, doubtlessly purposefully. I can see why this is considered by many Wes’ best. I’m not familiar enough with his filmography yet to make the same claim, but it’s certainly the best I’ve seen so far. Just incredible stuff.

Popular reviews

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  Deadpool & Wolverine 2024

  ½ Watched 01 Aug 2024

  Bereft of soul. Deeply cynical. No amount of ironic circlejerking can save this movie from itself. Water spiralling down the drain.

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  The Boy and the Heron 2023

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 12 Dec 2023

  What is there to say about this film that can even be said; that isn't self evident? The culmination of forty years of directing, and another forty of lived experience, The Boy and the Heron is about everything. The precipice between life and death, grief and loss, war, violence, what it means to live at all. Miyazaki doesn't answer these questions -- he's smart enough and lived long enough to know answers don't exist. The alternate (much more fitting) title…