Favorite films

Recent reviews

• 

  The Apprentice 2024

  Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Never seen a performance like Sebastian Stan's, playing a character who is incurious and motivated by something opaque and undefined, and yet doing it in a way that is completely captivating. We've seen plenty of stories about driven men striving for success and reaching the top: Tony Montana comes to mind. And, like Montana, Stan's Trump never fully reveals his hand. But unlike Scarface, we sense that Trump's motivation isn't internal; there's nothing inside him that compels him to keep…

• 

  Woman of the Hour 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 29 Oct 2024

  George Clooney 👉
  Anna Kendrick 👈
  🤝 Making knockout directorial debuts about the Dating Game

Popular reviews

• 

  The Green Knight 2021

  ★★★ Watched 01 Aug 2021

  Great:
  - Dev Patel's performance
  - Production design
  - The last 10 minutes

  Things that seem wildly, insanely dated:
  - Every 10 minutes he has to choose between living an honorable life or listening to a woman

  Maybe instead watch:
  - The King

• 

  Bill & Ted Face the Music 2020

  ★★★ Watched 29 Jul 2021

  20 year sequels generally suck, but there's something so fun about seeing these two dudes back in action. Granted I watched this on a plane where movies just hit different, so... I'm going to never watch this on land and hope it's as fun as I remember.