Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Night of the Juggler 1980

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Mar 2025

  45 years and new york's greatest enemy is still the transit cop

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  Drunken Angel 1948

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Mar 2025

  Oaths of doctors and thieves. Great movie. The reek of a ruinous 1948 Japan is supplanted for me by the effectiveness a remake of this would still have (true for every Kurosawa but his noirs especially) and a superiority over, ummm, basically anything to come out in the past year or so. You don’t really know what screen presence is until you see Mifune in this. Obviously the most complimented actor of any in his entire cinematic culture, but I don’t think enough can ever be said.

Popular reviews

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  Longlegs 2024

  ★★ Watched 10 Jul 2024

  The explicitly duplicitous marketing for this film is interesting because they’ve taken what has become an easily transparent strategy - immersive ARG, claims of “ultimate terror never before seen!” - and masked it behind arthouse aesthetic to try and cosplay as something innovative or intellectual. All marketing is duplicitous inherently, but the fascinating part of Longlegs is that it appears to have influenced opinion so much post-release that many see this as the marketing wanted you to even after viewing: As…

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  Simple Men 1992

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  Alternatively titled Young Man's Bresson. "Dad, did you blow up the pentagon?"