Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Final Destination 2000

  ★★★ Watched 27 Mar 2025

  B-

  Some fun to be had here for sure!

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  Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Mar 2025

  A-

  “For me, it’s the ultimate subversive commercial movie. It’s the epitome of everything that I admire most about Powell and Pressburger. It is utterly satisfying as popular entertainment, but also wildly inventive, profound, complex, and not at all comforting.”

  This had me in my feels big time. Scorsese rescuing Powell and reigniting his heart with his passion, Powell talking about connecting immediately with Pressburger because of his beautiful mind, the sentimentality and romanticism behind every project, etc etc etc. Cinema baby!!

Popular reviews

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  Roma 2018

  ★★★ Watched 23 Dec 2018

  B

  I feel about this movie the same way I felt about Dunkirk (2017) last year. In terms of the visuals, the sound, and the technical aspects, I'm incredibly impressed. But overall something just isn't sticking for me. I keep reading reviews saying things like "an incredibly personal introspective into one woman's life" but I didn't really get that sense at all. Very few scenes gave me the impression that I was witnessing Cleo's inner thoughts or her specific reactions…

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  Spies in Disguise 2019

  ★ Watched 26 Dec 2019 1

  C-

  CONS:
  -Tired and unattractive visual style
  -70% of the jokes are potty humor or "adult" jokes that are simply references to something like rectums or cloacas
  -Lots of "science talk" that is either straight up wrong or overly nonsensical just to sound "smart"
  -Trope of animal transformation as a vehicle to teach the main character some lesson
  -Trope of a scientific person being rejected for being too "weird" (even while in the midst of other scientists)
  -Gluten free bread being funny for some reason (No mention of Celiac disease, also bread is bad for birds!)

  PROS:
  -Rashida Jones and Karen Gillan
  -Will Smith's bird eyebrows