Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Eephus 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  I had so much fun spending 90 minutes with these guys, and was so sad when it was over. It reminded my a lot about 25th Hour, which is another movie about coming to terms with the end of a thing, but instead of desperately trying to make that moment profound, the guys in Eephus just try to desperately hold onto the normalcy, the thing that makes them happy, as long as they can. It’s a really special and profound movie…

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  Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  It’s crazy how easy it is for one small moment or gesture to bring forth a flood of painful memories that can completely consume you, even if those memories are fractured or slipping from your mental grasp, like sand through your fingers. This movie’s structure and editing style do a really great job of rendering that feeling. 

  I also appreciate the point about not being able to communicate the feeling of collective trauma without connecting it to some personal trauma is interesting, but pretty dicey!

Popular reviews

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Jul 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Dune 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Oct 2021

  This might be the greatest use of a massive studio budget that I've ever seen. The scale of this thing is absurd. The score is phenomenal. It's so patient but also trusts the audience to accept frequent overloads of information.

  As a fan of the book, it's a perfect adaptation. It's exactly how I pictured the book when I read it, and it also adds new layers to the text that I had never considered. This is particularly the case…