Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Primal Fear 1996

  Watched 02 Mar 2025

  A perfect part for Richard Gere. Norton's performance is "good" in the sense that it is memorable, along the lines of Paul Dano in The Batman. Some actors try to pack a movie's worth of performance into a couple scenes -- luckily for Norton, he is given full reign to chew up a scene. This movie is lurid in the best way. A courtroom movie that has nothing to do with the legal system.

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  Swingers 1996

  Watched 28 Feb 2025

  A movie I wish had seen at fifteen and not at thirty. A lot of it is dumb, and a lot of it is great.

Popular reviews

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  Black Sunday 1960

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Jul 2016

  Bava is clearly a stylist, and makes a tropey horror plot come alive with zooms, flourishes, and tracking shots, all of which make this an above-average vampire film and a solid late-night watch.

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  The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Jul 2016

  What else can be said about this film? The Passion of Joan of Arc has consistently appeared in best-of lists and is considered by critics to be one of the greatest of all time.

  So - what is it to me? I was immediately struck by its freshness. Dreyer's camera acrobatics felt incredibly modern. There is an energy to this film that many viewers fail to find in silent films.

  Then there are the close-ups. This is a film that…