Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The King's Speech 2010

  ★ Added 3

  if sam mendes is a discount christopher nolan -- and he is -- then tom hooper is the bargain bin's bargain bin sam mendes

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  Monrovia, Indiana 2018

  ★★★★★ Added

  wiseman? more like wisestman

Popular reviews

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  Night Moves 1975

  ★★★★★ Added

  maybe harry would've enjoyed pauline at the beach

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  Nixon 1995

  ★★★★ Added

  “his death was awful. it was an awful thing for this country.”

  “………yeah.”

  there’s an oddity to deriding oliver stone’s nixon — the film, not the titular tony hopkins character — as being overly dramatic, or indeed to assign to it the shakespearean label given to it at the time of its release and still so now, given that it’s a film which attempts to portray extremely consequential world-altering events (presidential elections! jfk! vietnam! detente! mao! watergate!) in the incredibly…