Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Napoleon 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Aug 2024

  (Director’s Cut)

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 30 Jul 2023

  Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece.

Popular reviews

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  The Shining 1980

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Nov 2019

  Kubrick was a cold filmmaker but never robotic so. While not the most outwardly humanistic of storytellers, he fixated on theme and imbued his films with enough ruminate subtext to keep any intellectual cineast on edge. Such is the case with this film. The horror is elemental, and the human beings are pawns is service to the setting.

  The Overlook/Kubrick will not budge at the expense of its characters. It/he is an enabler of suffering and emotion is more a…

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  Terminator: Dark Fate 2019

  ★½ Watched 06 Nov 2019 1

  WHAT THE FUCK.
  Way to kill an entire franchise and dismantle the legacy of T2. Yet another modern action movie that looks worse than films from 1991. It’s bland, pandering, dull, unfocused, sloppy, dumb, stupid, insulting and feels like an assembly line product of a committee. When David Gordon Green successfully resurrected Halloween with Carpenter ‘s involvement, the respect for the original was clear, and despite familiar elements, it had a new spin on the franchise. This film is literally…