Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Oct 2024

  I would happily watch a 10-hour version of this.

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  I Was Born, But... 1932

  ★★★ Watched 11 Jul 2021

  Great kid stuff, even by Ozu standards. Gets pretty real by the end.

Popular reviews

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  Superman 1978

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 13 Nov 2011

  Christopher Reeve, goddammit.

  Also, I actually appreciate the preposterous ending more as I get older. (Maybe as much as I enjoyed it when I was a kid.) It’s not sci-fi, it’s myth.

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  For Love of the Game 1999

  ★ Watched 09 Jun 2012 9

  Demonic possession, decapitated girlfriends, even the musical number in Spider-Man 3 — nothing Sam Raimi's ever made terrifies me more than the thought of having to sit through this again.

  The movie is two hours and seventeen minutes long. But it is the longest baseball game you will ever watch. Spoiler alert: The last five minutes are equal in duration to a lifetime of regret. (Yes, the movie bends space-time. It's that powerfully awful.)

  Boring people. In a boring situation.…